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On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> |
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> Am Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2018, 16:14:48 CEST schrieb Alec Warner: |
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> > They seem to offer docker packages, so we could just nab those and run |
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> them |
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> > in containers on hosts. I'm not too keen on doing a bunch of (really |
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> what I |
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> > consider busywork) to try to 'get it working on Gentoo.' We already use |
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> > upstream provided containers and I expect that to continue as upstreams |
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> > continue to abandon the 'release packages' model and move to 'release |
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> sets |
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> > of containers' model. |
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> > -A |
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> Apart from all the implications that have already been brought up, that's |
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> 1) a public relations nightmare waiting to happen |
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> (future discussion: "Err, wait, central Gentoo infrastructure runs on an |
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> Ubuntu-based container? Well, then we switch directly to Ubuntu.") |
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Its unclear what the upstream containers might be based on. CoreOS or |
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Alpine Linux are both common bases (and CoreOS is ironically a |
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Gentoo-powered[1] distro using our tree and tools.) I'm not sure people |
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would switch because of that. |
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> 2) not particularly nice to our users, who probably want to experiment |
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> with |
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> gitlab too. |
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> (Hey, for years www-apps/bugzilla was maintainer-needed while Gentoo Infra |
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> was |
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> running a well-maintained instance. I was always wondering what happened |
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> there...) |
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Users who want to experiment with gitlab can install docker and docker pull |
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the images, same as infra. |
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If users want to do things with ebuilds they can follow the wiki: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GitLab |
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I'm not yet quite convinced that Infra should be forced to do the latter, |
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provided the former does not violate the social contract (and that is |
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perhaps a healthy debate one could have.) |
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> So I'd suggest we either are convinced that our packaging actually makes |
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> sense, and use it, or we close shop. |
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I'm not convinced its worthwhile to package gitlab when upstream already |
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packaged it for us, which is why you don't see me spending time on such |
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things. |
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[0] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay |
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> -- |
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> Andreas K. Hüttel |
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> dilfridge@g.o |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel) |
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