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Customization. Ever try to add a command-line tool to a buildpack? I don't understand why we cannot make use of apt as the EC2 instances that Heroku uses are ju
by bcardarella 12y ago
Customization. Ever try to add a command-line tool to a buildpack? I don't understand why we cannot make use of apt as the EC2 instances that Heroku uses are just Ubuntu AMIs.
- parasubvert 12y agoSure. You can't make assumptions about the base distro with buildpacks, which is why you curl/untar dependencies. Dockerfiles are a bit better by allowing you to pick the base image (and thus distro), though there are tradeoffs with that too.
- latchkey 12y agoIt's a pain, but it isn't the end of the world or a disaster. I distribut some CLI tools with a NodeJS app I wrote. Here's the docs: https://github.com/lookfirst/convert/wiki/Compile https://github.com/lookfirst/convert/wiki/Compile