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This guide uses Debian as base image to run docker on. Let me just quickly point out that we are working on getting Docker available as a proper Debian package

by secure 13y ago

This guide uses Debian as base image to run docker on. Let me just quickly point out that we are working on getting Docker available as a proper Debian package (all dependencies are in place, a bit of work has to be done on the Docker package still). Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;). I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.

lwf 13y ago
> I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that That's pretty concerning. There's a reason Debian insists that basically everything is BFS…
- Slackwise 13y ago
  At least for Gentoo, that's not correct. It clones from the official GitHub repo, then compiles it as a Go dynamic binary. http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/docker/docker-0.7.0.ebuild?view=markup http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...
klaruz 13y ago
Redhat builds the binary from scratch as well: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/tree/docker-io.spec http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/tree/docker... It was just released to epel stable, the docs are here: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/docs/sources/installation/rhel.rst https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/docs/sources/...
pbogdan 13y ago
So I might be missing something but please show me how Docker packages are being distributed via official repositories in Arch and Gentoo? EDIT: Not to mention that packages mentioned at http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ no longer even exist.. As far as I can tell they do as good of a job as Debian - they don't package it all.
delroth 13y ago
Arch Linux builds the package from source too. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/docker https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/t...
- secure 13y ago
  This has changed from the last time I’ve looked. Excellent! Thanks for all the links to packages. Good to see that distributions have picked up properly building docker.
vertex-four 13y ago
Gentoo definitely builds from source: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/docker/docker-0.7.0.ebuild?view=markup http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...

by secure 13y ago

lwf 13y ago

> I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that That's pretty concerning. There's a reason Debian insists that basically everything is BFS…

Slackwise 13y ago
At least for Gentoo, that's not correct. It clones from the official GitHub repo, then compiles it as a Go dynamic binary. http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/docker/docker-0.7.0.ebuild?view=markup http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...

klaruz 13y ago

Redhat builds the binary from scratch as well: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/tree/docker-io.spec http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/tree/docker... It was just released to epel stable, the docs are here: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/docs/sources/installation/rhel.rst https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/docs/sources/...

pbogdan 13y ago

So I might be missing something but please show me how Docker packages are being distributed via official repositories in Arch and Gentoo? EDIT: Not to mention that packages mentioned at http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ no longer even exist.. As far as I can tell they do as good of a job as Debian - they don't package it all.

delroth 13y ago

Arch Linux builds the package from source too. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/docker https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/t...

secure 13y ago
This has changed from the last time I’ve looked. Excellent! Thanks for all the links to packages. Good to see that distributions have picked up properly building docker.

vertex-four 13y ago

Gentoo definitely builds from source: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/docker/docker-0.7.0.ebuild?view=markup http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...