https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa-container uses a read-only container approach with a /data directory for state, configuration, and volatile data. Most paths are redirected using symlinks but some applications don't support dangling symlinks. ipaplatform definitions for fedora_container and rhel_container would allow freeipa-container approach to drop most patches and simplify the effort.
/data
fedora_container
rhel_container
Metadata Update from @cheimes: - Custom field on_review adjusted to https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/4904
PR 4904 makes several freeipa-container changes obsolete:
CPython upstream PR https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21430 addresses the SELinux issue in shutil.copystat().
shutil.copystat()
master:
ipa-4-8:
Metadata Update from @frenaud: - Issue close_status updated to: fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Metadata Update from @cheimes: - Custom field changelog adjusted to ipaplatform now provides container platform flavors for freeipa/freeipa-container