Hi everyone,
I've been running some tests on Travis CI with CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 based Docker containers and having issues with the CentOS 8 ones.
With the centos:8 image, the RPM database eventually gets corrupted due to the default overlay2 storage driver used by Docker.
This issue doesn't show with the centos:7 container. It already comes with the "fastestmirror" and "ovl" plugins installed. The "ovl" plugin is a workaround to avoid this corruption. See the bottom of https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/overlayfs-driver/ for more details.
Fedora 29 and 30 already have an equivalent "dnf-plugin-ovl" package ( https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dnf-plugin-ovl). However, I couldn't find it for RHEL8 or CentOS 8.
I can use the "touch" workaround for now. But are there plans to bring this plugin to CentOS 8 and make it part of the CentOS 8 image, just like on CentOS 7? Or is there some other way to achieve the same with dnf?
Thanks in advance, Richard