Re: [PATCH v1 10/28] tests/docker: allow non-unique userid

[Alex Bennée]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 10/26/21 3:22 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This is a bit of a band-aid against hand-built images that have been
>> accidentally polluted by a user build. All images pulled from the
>> registry shouldn't have the user defined.
>
> I believe that I've fixed the images currently uploaded.
>
> I think we ought to totally rewrite now we add users to images.  I
> don't think we can reasonably layer one image upon another without
> getting the user added at an intermediate image.

We could just force NOUSER=1 on the base images. The only images users
will actually want with their IDs are the final ones anyway. I'll drop
this patch from the upcoming PR and see if I can rework stuff.

> At present the only
> way to do this is NOCACHE=1 NOUSER=1, so that all of the intermediate
> images are also rebuilt, and also force nouser.
>
> Does this patch really help in the meantime?
>
>
> r~


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Alex Bennée