Re: [PATCH 1/3] rpm: add support for remote package feeds via PACKAGE_FEED_URIS variable

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 13:19 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 03/15/2017 01:13 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> >
> >     +        cls.repo_server.port = 8080
> >
> >
> > What if parallel selftests are running at once?  Can this service be
> > started before the image is created, so the right port can be written
> > into the image?
> 
> I don't know. I only followed what Humberto wrote in the original patch; 
> we need to ask him. I'm also not entirely certain that hardcoding the ip 
> address will always work, and did not get an answer to that.
> 
> Another, more hackish option is to monkey patch the ephemeral port 
> before running dnf into the repo config on the image.

Or perhaps use ssh with port forwarding? Then the host-side port can be
picked randomly, while on the target side it can be fixed.

I was about to suggest qemu slirp networking because that also does port
mapping, but I think ssh port forwarding is better.

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