mkdir /etc/alternatives may work

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:02 PM

i'm nursing a headache, just got up from a nap, and not validating my statements, but i'm pretty confident (hence my link from an issue posted a few months ago)

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:02 PM

Actually there’s probably no harm in doing that

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:02 PM

before ostree would fail if there was data in /etc

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:02 PM

But now it will just clean up

Aakdev mkdir /etc/alternatives may work

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:02 PM

this also doesn't hurt anythign, but it is not an alternative to mkdir /var/lib/alternatives ...

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:03 PM

No, it is a workaround

Bbsherman i'm nursing a headache, just got up from a nap, and not validating my statements...

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:03 PM

alright let's table it for later then, I have no problems making tonight video game night, heh

Bbsherman yes, we should probably use it in our builds... the downside is `ostree contain...

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:04 PM

ostree container commit now cleans up /var iirc

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:05 PM

unless I am making stuff up which is possible

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:05 PM

right, but i mean, I don't think mkdir /etc/alternatives is required, but mkdir /var/lib/alternatives is...

at least, i think

happy to be proven wrong with a better solution... i' just know it's been working

here's where i do it in my personal image (the "cleanup" bit, which assumes the

mkdir -p /var/lib/alternatives

mkdir -p /var/lib/alternatives

above)

https://github.com/bsherman/ublue-custom/blob/main/Containerfile#L36-L39

Jj0rge alright let's table it for later then, I have no problems making tonight video g...

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:06 PM

I can't work on ublue tonight, need to do $DAYJOB, prep for some family stuff this weekend, and hopefully I'll get a few minutes to game myself

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:06 PM

we could start small with just the one and see what we can get away with. vegeta

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:06 PM

In theory I think we could build a container like:

buildah build -v /somedir:/var/lib/alternatives

Jj0rge we could start small with just the one and see what we can get away with. <:vege...

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:06 PM

well, i already do it in

ublue-os/akmods

ublue-os/akmods

Bbsherman I can't work on ublue tonight, need to do $DAYJOB, prep for some family stuff th...

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:06 PM

yeah and I'm hopefully starting a new job here in about 2 weeks so more chillops

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:07 PM

wait is this in akmods?

Jj0rge yeah and I'm hopefully starting a new job here in about 2 weeks so more chillops

akdevOP•6/1/23, 10:07 PM

Yay! What’s your new position?

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:07 PM

https://github.com/ublue-os/akmods/blob/main/build-prep.sh#L17

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:07 PM

I can't say yet but I am very excited and it'll be awesome.

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:07 PM

huh, if that was in there why didn't I have it in bluefin?

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:08 PM

I think it's been in there long enough to trickle down?

Jj0rge I think it's been in there long enough to trickle down?

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:08 PM

well that doesn't trickle down, akmods builds, then main copies RPMS from akmods to install

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:08 PM

oh oh, right, you clean up after yourself

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:09 PM

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:09 PM

I call this one

dedication.png

dedication.png

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:09 PM

each Containerfile build needs to have it's own

mkdir -p /var/lib/alternatives

mkdir -p /var/lib/alternatives

if it's going to install any RPMs which need alternatives... so, IMHO, it's just a nice default hack until upstream Fedora and/or package maintainers find better solutions for alternatives

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:10 PM

ok so maybe the play is to add this as a snippet in the make your own page as a gotcha, that's a nice friday afternoon thing I can do

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:10 PM

alas, my sabbatical is nearly over lol

Jj0rge alas, my sabbatical is nearly over lol

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:11 PM

as in, have to go back to work?

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:11 PM

yeah

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:11 PM

also, i'm sorry if i came in and derailed some conversation, i just wanted to offere another solution

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:11 PM

it's all good, I hadn't realized you had dug into this so deeply

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:11 PM

i'm more wondering if we need to seriously consider bypassing rpmfusion's mirrormanager

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:12 PM

but again, i shouldn't think about this right now LOL

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:12 PM

https://www.weareteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/gandalf.jpg

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:13 PM

the rpmfusion sync is a new kernel, and a new mesa all at around the same time

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:13 PM

say what?

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:13 PM

6.3 kernel and 23.1 mesa

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:14 PM

but that breaks their mirrors?

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:14 PM

I had a build with package conflicts, etc.

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:14 PM

the usual stuff

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:14 PM

not just the mirror thing

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:14 PM

ah, i see

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:15 PM

well, i'm glad we got at least one build last night before the scheduled builds faild

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:15 PM

yeah they failed this morning

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:15 PM

all across the board

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:15 PM

r/fedora is a good radar for that, that's how I knew it was just not the mirror thing, then I know exactly what to look for

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:18 PM

I'd love to find out if rpmfusion has like a mirror for CI systems only, that'd be ideal

j0rge•6/1/23, 10:18 PM

"hey give us access to a thing where it can be reliable and in return we can offload a bunch of image based traffic off your mirrors" might be a good pitch.

bsherman•6/1/23, 10:20 PM

yeah, i'm not an expert on the mirrorings systems

mkdir /etc/alternatives may work

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