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The 'unit tests' are no longer just unit tests. They also run a bunch
of static analysis tools like ShellCheck, codespell, gofmt and 'go vet'.
Since newer versions of these tools are generally better at catching
problems in the codebase, it will be better to run the 'unit tests' on
Fedora Rawhide with the latest versions than older stable Fedoras.
The timeout for the 'unit tests' need to be increased because Fedora
Rawhide is slower than stable Fedoras. Currently, the timeout for the
'unit tests' running on Fedora 36 is 10 minutes. Increasing it to 20
minutes when running on Fedora Rawhide wasn't enough, so maybe 30 will
be sufficient.
Note that this is only feasible because the Fedora Rawhide builds are
now more robust against stale DNF caches [1]. Otherwise, it wouldn't
have been wise to use Fedora Rawhide to test anything which isn't also
being tested elsewhere, because the Fedora Rawhide builds might have
stayed broken for extended periods of time due to reasons completely
unrelated to Toolbx.
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Toolbox is a tool for Linux, which allows the use of interactive command line environments for development and troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software on the host. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.
Toolbox environments have seamless access to the user's home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..
This is particularly useful on OSTree based operating systems like Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package managers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development environment or troubleshoot the operating system in the usual way.
Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
which one can install their favourite development and troubleshooting tools,
editors and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do yum install ansible
without affecting the base operating system.
However, this tool doesn't require using an OSTree based system. It works equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a useful way to incrementally adopt containerization.
The toolbox environment is based on an OCI
image. On Fedora this is the fedora-toolbox image. This image is used to
create a toolbox container that offers the interactive command line
environment.
Note that Toolbox makes no promise about security beyond what's already available in the usual command line environment on the host that everybody is familiar with.
Installation & Use
See our guides on installing & getting started with Toolbox and Linux distro support.