So, rpm-ostree install is really slow, and it also can’t change the versions of any packages in the base system. Custom images forked from GitHub - ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image! is the right way to do things, but that involves having GitHub set up, and dealing …

Thanks for posting what you did. I build test ones locally myself as well. It is quicker to build locally than on the GitHub runners, which can be slow. I don’t know why GitHub Actions are hated. Mine work fine. I have both builds using bluebuild (which take way longer to run but are easier to mana…

The reason I don’t like GitHub Actions is because the development loop is terrible. It doesn’t run locally, and the control plane is completely within GitHub itself even if you can self host a runner. To get things working, you have edit the workflow, push the branch, wait for the jobs to work or er…

Turns out that when you tag a new image, Podman leaves the old image dangling instead of cleaning it up. Over time this means you have left-over images which, given the size of bootc images, accrues a lot of disk usage over time. My fix for this was to add an additional post-run command to the buil…

Why don’t you use self-hosted GitHub runners? [image] Self-hosted runners - GitHub Docs You can host your own runners and customize the environment used to run jobs in your GitHub Actions workflows. Personally, I haven’t tried that in my iterative troublesho…

Where the job runs is not the problem with GHA. The tedious development loop, the pile of YAML, and the poor documentation and debuggability, are my problems

Well, GitHub runners are far slower than my local rig, so there is some time saved waiting for it to finish.

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Have you tried another local Git server system like Gitea? (I have no idea if that’s any better).

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