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These high-level flow diagrams map out the current (pre-6.6.0) logic of simp-rake-helpers ISO builds, with annotations relevant to the two major build updates for 6.6.0: “slim” mirrors of modular DNF repos and JMG’s restructure to support multiple OSes.

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The pkg:checksig task is executed by iso:build, just prior to pkg:repoclosure. It is not available as a public rake task.

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pkg:repoclosure

The pkg:repoclosure task is executed by iso:build, just after pkg:checksig.

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Alternatives to --lookaside

CentOS repocloses their own builds without -- lookaside= by combining --repofrompath=REPO_ID,REPO_PATH and --repo=REPO_ID :

dnf repoclosure \
  --arch=x86_64 --arch=i686 --arch=noarch \
  --repofrompath=target-repo,file:///repos/compose/os \
  --repo=target-repo \
  --check=target-repo \
  --repofrompath=lookaside-repo-0,file:///repos/lookaside/BaseOS \
  --repo=lookaside-repo-0 \
  --repofrompath=lookaside-repo-1,file://repos/lookaside/AppStream \
  --repo=lookaside-repo-1

This is much better: Both options are native to core DNF. They set up the lookaside repos just for the run of this particular repoclosure—there’s no longer any need to stage a separate <repo>.conf or yum.conf > [main]\ninclude=<repo>.conf ahead of time.

EL7's version of repoclosure should be able to do this, too—it actually provides its own --repofrompath= The only difference is that EL7 uses --repoid= and EL8 is documented with --repo=—but EL8 actually still honors --repoid=, too.

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(none yet) Alternatives to --tempcache