Hello everyone,
v239 brought in portable services (a good description is at http://0pointer.net/blog/walkthrough-for-portable-services.html) and while I still cannot make it work (I do not have a /usr/lib/systemd/portablectl despite having systemd --version reporting 239, but this is going to be a separate question) I wanted to understand how to build a minimal portable service.
A practical example could be dnsmasq. It is provided as a package and depends (apt show dnsmasq) on netbase, dnsmasq-base, init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6). These packages may further depend on something else.
It also brings in a set of files into the system:
root@srv ~# dpkg-query -L dnsmasq
/.
/etc
/etc/default
/etc/default/dnsmasq
/etc/dnsmasq.conf
/etc/dnsmasq.d
/etc/dnsmasq.d/README
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq
/etc/insserv.conf.d
/etc/insserv.conf.d/dnsmasq
/etc/resolvconf
/etc/resolvconf/update.d
/etc/resolvconf/update.d/dnsmasq
/lib
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/resolvconf
/usr/lib/resolvconf/dpkg-event.d
/usr/lib/resolvconf/dpkg-event.d/dnsmasq
/usr/share
/usr/share/dnsmasq
/usr/share/dnsmasq/installed-marker
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq
Some of these are existing directories, some new ones and then there are files (new, but possibly existing as well).
How should I create a filesystem which has only the files required by the packages (= the ones it brings in, as well as all the dependencies)?
I know that I can dbootstrap a new system and install there dnsmasq - and then hopefully use this as the tree to be attached via portablectl. This however means that I do not have a "dnsmasq" portable service but rather a "bionic install with dnsmasq installed on top". The main reason for me to use portable service is to create small packages which encompass my service, to be mounted on a more or less base core OS install (say, minimal bionic). This would allow to get rid of several nspawn containers which do exactly this (base OS + a package installed on top).
One of the ideas I had (but which seems very wrong) is to have a copy of the core OS, then in another copy install the required packages, and then make a diff of the two directories. But this looks horrible and is hardly maintainable.
I would very much appreciate any pointers or hints on how to approach this.
Wojtek
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