[arch-general] Building in docker?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:36:23PM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> 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.

Oki, I've never looked at lxc, I was under the impression that docker
used to build on lxc in the past.  Is that not true any longer?

Is there a template included for Arch?  That would be quite nice
because building the docker image for Arch is a bit ugly I'd say....

Finally, what about running a 32bit container on a 64bit host?  I've
not managed to find any indication that this is officially supported
in docker, but it seems to work just fine.

> > 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).

Well, I'm probably imprecise here.  What I meant was that after the
service has been started (which requires root) any user in the docker
group can start images.

/M

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