cmdlib: don't use cache qcow for composes; use virtiofs #3720
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If we ever want to compose over virtiofsd we'll need xattr support.
Now that our OSBuild workflow is using the cache we saw at least one case where the pipeline was running out of space when composing the extensions. Since we had a previous proposal [1] to just drop the cache altogether anyway let's try to at least remove it from the runcompose functions to eliminate the use of it there anyway. [1] coreos#3615
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ok this worked (or rather didn't work because it was an invalid test) locally for me initially because I wasn't running in a VM (i.e. I was executing the privileged workflow). Setting I added a commit to add |
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It failed the same way in CI here. |
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Since we are now using the cache qcow2 for OSBuild we need it to be a little large to handle those duties as well as the tree compose ones. I'd like to drop the cache, but hit some trouble there; see coreos#3720.
Since we are now using the cache qcow2 for OSBuild we need it to be a little large to handle those duties as well as the tree compose ones. I'd like to drop the cache, but hit some trouble there; see #3720.
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I think the issue there is that the actual compose of the rootfs happens over virtiofs also because rpm-ostree wants to colocate it with the cache repo to get hardlinks. One thing we could do is put the virtiofs mount r/w in |
I'm not sure I understand this comment. Here I am modifying it to use |
Right. The compose just happens wherever the pkgcache repo is. Before (status quo), that was on the cache qcow2. Now, that's over virtiofs. |
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So rpm-ostree does have support for e.g. applying filecaps at commit time, but it currently keys off of uid != 0 to know this, except that in the supermin VM we are root. And we do need to be root to e.g. do privileged stuff like mount namespaces. But it might work to just add a flag to force the commit modifier path even if uid == 0. E.g. we could try testing with diff --git a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-core.cxx b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-core.cxx
index 9cc872b2..efb77107 100644
--- a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-core.cxx
+++ b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-core.cxx
@@ -3561,7 +3561,7 @@ apply_rpmfi_overrides (RpmOstreeContext *self, int tmprootfs_dfd, DnfPackage *pk
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* TODO: For non-root `--unified-core` we need to do it as a commit modifier.
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- if (getuid () != 0)
+ if (g_getenv ("RPMOSTREE_SKIP_RPMFI_OVERRIDES") || getuid () != 0)
return TRUE; /* 🔚 Early return */
g_auto (rpmfi) fi = NULL;But there may be other things that break. |
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I think this would be good to pick up again if it's not a lot of work to get working. But long-term, I think it'll get obsoleted by the move to deriving from a shared base image instead. |
Now that our OSBuild workflow is using the cache we saw at least one case where the pipeline was running out of space. Since we had a previous proposal [1] to just drop the cahce altogether anyway let's try to at least remove it from the runcompose functions to eliminate the use of it there anyway.
[1] #3615