Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Migrate to mmdebstrap

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Tue,  9 May 2023 11:21:01 +0300
schrieb Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>:

> Switch Isar from debootstrap to mmdebstrap.
> It makes isar-bootstrap target ~10% faster on both cross and native
> rootfs types. Also mmdebstrap support using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for
> images reproducibly out of the box. But the main advantage is an
> ability to remove sudo for debootstrapping later on.
> This change brakes Debian Buster support as host distro.

Maybe you can add a few words on the relevance and the sustainability
of mmdebstrap and compare it to debootstrap. Is it an official debian
supported tool, where does upstream use it, do we align with debian
strategy here?

As far as i remember we came from multistrap and eventually switches to
debootstrap. And the reasons have been around multistrap being somehow
not official or sustainable.

Maybe that is in the commits, i am starting the review at the
cover-letter.

Henning

> Anton Mikanovich (4):
>   isar-bootstrap: Move preparations to hooks
>   isar-bootstrap: Use tar output instead of directory
>   user_manual.md: Replace debootstrap with mmdebstrap
>   isar-bootstrap: Remove unused code
> 
> Uladzimir Bely (2):
>   meta: Switch to mmdebstrap
>   CI: Install mmdebstrap
> 
>  doc/user_manual.md                            |   4 +-
>  meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-focal.conf       |   4 -
>  meta/classes/rootfs.bbclass                   |  11 +-
>  .../isar-bootstrap/isar-bootstrap.inc         | 269
> ++++++++---------- scripts/ci_build.sh                           |
> 6 + 5 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)
>