On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:25 PM Jonathon Fernyhough <jonathon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 13/10/2018 13:12, Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > > I run a immutable and stateless setup. So I can not actually update systems > > (they are immutable after all). So I end up having my CI generate images > > for my systems every couple of hours. Those will then replace the images I > > run eventually, getting me to a new updated system state. > > As a slight side-step, might it be possible to generate the images in a > ramdisk/tmpfs? That should remove disk I/O as a bottleneck. That is possible. > Another option, given you know the expected end state, could be to > bypass pacman and extract the package file content into place directly > (e.g. with tar), then run whatever hooks you want afterwards. Yes, you'd > lose package management within the images but that doesn't matter with > an immutable image. (Though, there may be side-effects I haven't > considered here.) The price is loosing package management. I do want to keep that to drag in dependencies. Best Regards, Tobias
