Avi Deitcher

If it helps, I just spent days wrangling with something very similar. The El Torito boot process, combined with specific UEFI implementations, can be... interesting.

Questions: 1. why use POST instead of GET? Aren't we "getting" a resource (i.e. certs)? 2. why would we use compression type and cert type in the body? Wouldn't those...

> No, it is for body encoding. In our case it is a application/x-proto-binary That is kind of what I am asking. Our API is complex for good reasons, includes...

@rucoder to be clear, I wasn't pushing for, "we really have to make this whole thing RESTful no matter what." It was more of a, "we have a lot of...

> I had to build ninja from source since Alpine dropped a support for it in 3.8 It looks like it has support. `apk add ninja-build` (plus some weird compatibility...

> The only downside is that the container stays on the runner if we move to newer version. That should not be an issue. linuxkit itself checks if the builder...

More fundamentally, what tasks are we actually trying to solve in parallel? If it is just the packages build, it would be faster (and easier) to just add parallelism to...

@rucoder and I came up with a cleaner way to handle the cache locks. Initial tests show it works, PR is open on linuxkit. I will merge it in there...

Given that all of this is reproducible, like with go, I'd like to see a way to avoid having to commit these to git at all. Maybe we can vendor...

> what is the difference between vendoring at build time and letting cargo to download crate sources itself? We need the build process to always give the exact same results,...