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On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:45:18 -0400 |
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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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> <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > 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 |
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> > > (really |
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> > what I |
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> > > consider busywork) to try to 'get it working on Gentoo.' We |
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> > > already use upstream provided containers and I expect that to |
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> > > continue as upstreams continue to abandon the 'release packages' |
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> > > 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, |
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> > 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 |
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> > on an Ubuntu-based container? Well, then we switch directly to |
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> > 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 |
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> people would switch because of that. |
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Except that Red-Hat just bought CoreOS and are intending to replace the |
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Gentoo base with Red-Hat. (Reported by one of my co-workers that just |
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attended the big docker conference and at least one of the talks where |
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that was discussed) |
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Brian Dolbec <dolsen> |