Re: the sad state of installability tests

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 4:06 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:55:03AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > This seems like overkill. Wouldn't the simplest valid installability
> > test just be to test whether each subpackage *individually* could be
> > installed?
>
> That's a really nice idea.
>
> > If we have 20 subpackages, just launch 20 separate minimal containers
> > and see if `dnf install subpackageN` succeeds. Then it doesn't matter
> > if there are conflicts; we know that at least installing that package
> > directly will work. (Dependency resolution may pull in other
> > subpackages of course, which is proving that it works properly.)
>
> I'm not sure if we actually want a container. Because if it's a container,
> then we need _some_ packages inside. But that creates a problem for
> some packages like cannot be just installed, but need to be swapped
> with other packages. (systemd-standalone-*, coreutils-single, etc.)
> I think it'd be more reliable to do something like
>   dnf install --enablerepo=/path/to/repo/with/updates --sysroot=/var/tmp/inst-package1 /path/to/repo/with/updates/package1.rpm
>   dnf install --enablerepo=/path/to/repo/with/updates --sysroot=/var/tmp/inst-package1 /path/to/repo/with/updates/package2.rpm
>   ...
>
> And to make this work reliably, the invocation of dnf should be
> wrapped in 'bwrap' to set up /dev, /proc for the invocation.
>
> This should be quick and more reliable than the current tests,
> even with no config.
>

Sure, I oversimplified by saying "container", but I agree with your
suggestion. That seems both simple and effective.

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