[arch-general] Building in docker?

[Leonid Isaev]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:04:37AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> For various reasons I'm looking into not using `makechrootpkg` when
> building the 200+ packages I put into a non-official repo.  Obviously
> it's important to keep the building environment separate from my
> ordinary system environment.  Going to full virtualisation is
> definitely overkill and the only containers I know of are chroots and
> docker.

If by chroot you mean also nspawn, then it is mostly equivalent to docker and
lxc. The only thing bad about systemd-nspawn is its lack of easy config through
files (it only supports cmdline switches which is ridiculously cumbersome).
Also, docker is more complex than a plain lxc-tools approach.

So, I would go with lxc as the simplest and most flexible solution. In fact,
that's how I build my packages.

> 
> Docker has some nice attributes, in particular no need for root
> access.  However, I don't know a whole lot about it, so I wonder are

Where do you take this from? Rootless containers require a specific host kernel
configuration (which -ARCH kernels don't have).

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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