On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:

Hey all,

I've been spending a few hours trying to use preinstall images[1] to speed up builds in OBS.

However, it seems like after defining a _preinstallimage file in a package space in a project, nothing uses it anyway. I've even tried copying official OBS preinstall images[2].

I'm using OBS 2.8 with chroot builds and it's not working. I can build them just fine, but no package build uses them... I've also tested with OBS 2.9 beta and it similarly does not work.

What am I missing? Is there a prjconf directive I need to use to use them? An option to set for the obsworker service? Or something else?

So I realized what I did wrong (having the preinstall images in an unrelated project), and now it works in OBS 2.8 instance. But it's still broken on OBS 2.9. I upgraded to the latest in the repos and that didn't fix it either.

So it looks like preinstall images usage is broken in OBS 2.9 entirely.