[CentOS-devel] Including rkt in virt7 - yay/nay?

[Jim Perrin]

On 07/02/2015 04:17 PM, Lokesh Mandvekar wrote:
> Wondering if people would be ok with including rkt in virt7 SIG repos.
> some folks gave this a yay on IRC, but reaching out to the mailing list as
> well for more votes.
> 
> rkt is _not_ in fedora yet and including it would also imply including
> systemd >= 220 in virt7 as it isn't present in base CentOS.

My only concerns about this would be unintended breakage due to feature
changes. There's quite a bit in systemd that gets disabled or otherwise
turned off. I'm okay with including it, but there should be testing with
it as well.

> All the gory detail around rkt packaging for fedora can be found here:
> https://github.com/coreos/rkt/issues/686 . The main
> pending issue that fedora won't agree to right now is
> RE: installing the stage1 rootfs tarball at rpm install time.


Ugh, that's not overly nice. So long as this is being resolved/fixed
upstream, I'm okay with it.



> WIP rpm files are here: https://github.com/fedora-cloud/rkt-rpm/ . I've been
> adding these to my copr repo here:
> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lsm5/rkt/ . markllama and lalatenduM
> might have something to add to this.




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