Dne 01. 06. 22 v 2:10 William Brown napsal(a):

Seems super interesting!

Thanks!

So I'm assuming this works by doing something like:

docker run -i -t -v /:/host yast-container

So that the yast-container can interact with the "root" filesystem from /?

Yes, that's the trick, it uses "-v /:/mnt". That's actually the same what YaST does during normal installation, in that case the target system is also mounted to "/mnt". To have full access to the host system it uses some more options, esp. the "--privileged" is important. See https://github.com/yast/yast-in-container/blob/9470635cfaae6b9e1729cb755a944... For accessing the X session in the host it needs some extra options, see https://github.com/yast/yast-in-container/blob/9470635cfaae6b9e1729cb755a944..., that might be useful if you want to run any X application in a container.

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Today I found one more interesting use case: disaster recovery. First I removed zypper + libzypp from the system and I was able to install it back using YaST package manager in a container. Then I even removed rpm (!) itself and I was still able to install it back to the system via the YaST container!

This is extremely cool. :D

I was also surprised from how bad situation I could easily recover... :-) -- Ladislav Slezák YaST Developer SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. Corso IIa Křižíkova 148/34 18600 Praha 8