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Should we update and regularly rebuild the images or not? #5

Open travier opened 2 years ago

travier commented 2 years ago

Right now, the Containerfiles do not update the packages in the image.

We have two options:

Note: This discussion apply to Arch Linux too but we need to keep it updated monthly at miminum.

Foxboron commented 2 years ago

I'd perfer weekly rebuilds for Arch as we are dealing with work containers.

travier commented 2 years ago

Any particular reason for weekly rebuilds? Do you re-create one every week? Then if that's the case do you re-install all your tools there every time? Then I'd say that maybe you're better served by having your own container build from another repo on top of this one. I have mine in https://github.com/travier/quay-containerfiles/tree/main/toolbox for example that builds on top of the Fedora one.

I would say that the target for those images is people that create an image and update it over time instead of re-creating it all the time.

Foxboron commented 2 years ago

Packages update fast in Arch. If you create a new container at the tailend of the month then a lot of those packages are going to be old. It's better to use toolbox create and know the container isn't super outdated.

travier commented 2 years ago

OK, let's do weekly rebuilt. I hope we'll have enough built minutes.

HarryMichal commented 2 years ago

The same reasoning for periodical rebuilds can also apply to Fedora Rawhide.

travier commented 2 years ago

Agree that Rawhide should be rebuilt regularly. Is this not the case right now?

travier commented 2 years ago

Note that most of the images here do not update the packages. I'm looking at that in https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/pull/20.

travier commented 2 years ago

Looks like I read https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions incorrectly and actions minutes are free and unlimited for public projects. I will turn builds on in PRs.

HarryMichal commented 2 years ago

Agree that Rawhide should be rebuilt regularly. Is this not the case right now?

All Fedora Toolbx images are being rebuilt regularly. I mainly mentioned it to support the need for Arch Linux images to be rebuilt regularly.

Jmennius commented 2 years ago

I think Ubuntu images should be rebuilt bi-weekly but at least once a month.

travier commented 2 years ago

Then they need some work like I did in https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/commit/52a51d545bbe2881c13d122e1d07e59b8c667581 for the CentOS ones as right now they don't update at all.

travier commented 2 years ago

Well, they do get updated but only if the base image is updated.

travier commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/pull/41 should close this one.

travier commented 2 years ago

See discussion in https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/pull/41, we'll not update Debian & Ubuntu images. Maybe we revisit the discussion here and not update all images by default.

debarshiray commented 9 months ago

Agree that Rawhide should be rebuilt regularly. Is this not the case right now?

All Fedora Toolbx images are being rebuilt regularly. I mainly mentioned it to support the need for Arch Linux images to be rebuilt regularly.

Just to be clear ...

These days, since the Fedora 39 development cycle, the fedora-toolbox image for Rawhide gets built as part of the nightly composes. Earlier, they were being manually rebuilt every few weeks, just like the images for the stable Fedora releases.

Currently, the built-in arch-toolbox and ubuntu-toolbox images, maintained as part of Toolbx, are rebuilt every Monday.