TASK: Determine delivery repo for systemd-standalone-* packages

[yselkowitz]

Background

• With RPM picking up a dependency on systemd-sysusers for a change in F42, the systemd-standalone-sysusers package (which provides the same) must now be used for artifacts which include rpm but not a full systemd (such as container base images, flatpak runtimes, etc., but not bootc images or -init container images). This requires a change to the kiwi descriptions for ELN container base images to avoid build errors caused by the full systemd being pulled in where not useful.

However, systemd-standalone-sysusers has not been shipped in RHEL repos in previous versions. Rather, it and its counterpart systemd-standalone-tmpfiles (which is included in Fedora flatpak runtimes to meet a dependency of samba-common) have been shipped in OCP repos, for reasons I have not yet determined. Because Kiwi images only use known repos (currently, BaseOS, AppStream, and CRB), do not use the koji buildroot, and the Buildroot is not shipped as a repo, this now fails.

To unblock composes in the meantime, I have temporarily added these to CRB, but a proper fix still needs to be made.

What does the ELN SIG need to do?

• Determine whether these, as part of the RHEL system package, should be shipped in CRB for the benefit of OCP rather than shipped there.
• Determine the proper means of including systemd-standalone-sysusers in image builds if not delivered in standard RHEL repos.
• Adjust the pungi-config and kiwi descriptions as necessary.