Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Migrate to mmdebstrap

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 10:24 +0300, Uladzimir Bely wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 09:14 +0000, Schaffner, Tobias wrote:
> > Hi Uladzimir,
> > 
> > some of the patches of this story needed a rebase. Find them
> > attached.
> > 
> > On 20.06.23 12:00, Uladzimir Bely wrote:
> > ...
> > > > 
> > > > Is this now settled? Asking as I'm planning to release kas 4.0
> > > > with
> > > > the
> > > > dependencies in patch 7 resolved these days, and I'd like to
> > > > see
> > > > this
> > > > targeting the final version of this feature.
> > > > 
> > > > Jan
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > We are currently upgrading our interlnal CI and need to run more
> > > jobs
> > > before merging it.
> > > 
> > > But anyway, if mmdebstrap (and other packages mentioned in patch
> > > 3)
> > > is
> > > preinstalled in kas 4.0 image, it would be nice.
> > 
> > The dependencies needed are already included in KAS 4.0.
> > 
> > Is there something else missing to finish this?
> > 
> 
> Actually, there are some more things that could be included in KAS.
> 
> The patch uses "--mode=unshare" for mmdebstrap. It's currently runs
> under sudo, but also can be run under user. But this requires
> "newuidmap" utility provided by "uidmap" packages.
> 
> Also, we have "fakeroot" preinstalled, but not "fakechroot".
> Currently
> it's not used, but potentially could be used in order to reduce
> "sudo"
> calls number.
> 
> So, having "uidmap" and "fakechroot" preinstalled with KAS would be
> nice.

Also, forget to mention...

It's not directly related to this patchset, but there is one more
("Improving base-apt usage") under development. It requires "python3-
apt" package preinstalled.

Currently it's used by some standalone script, but potentially could
also be used directly from isar bbclasses/recipes, instead of calling
"apt-get" commands.

The package is quite small and if nobody against, it would be nice to
have it also preinstalled with newer KAS>

> 
> > All the best,
> > Tobias
>