2019-04-07 afbjorklund
Interesting Day Today
Spent the day in Göteborg at the FOSS North Community Day, and it was interesting.
First spent some time with BSD people and then GNU people, getting two different sides.
Thanks to B3 and Kuro for hosting, and to all working on Free and Open Source Software!
The rest of this post is related to containers (in general) and to podman (in particular)…
FreeBSD
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201904
While it would be possible to use runc and containers in Jails, it’s not out-of-the-box.
There were efforts to port Docker, but they seem halted: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
See https://github.com/kvasdopil/docker/blob/freebsd-compat/FREEBSD-PORTING.md
FreeBSD runc: https://github.com/clovertrail/runc/tree/1501-SupportOnFreeBSD (OCI)
So it seems unlikely to have full support 1 for running Linux containers, any time soon…
But I don’t see any problems of making podman-machine 2 available in the meantime.
Debian
https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/se/Gothenburg
Debian packaging of Docker is interesting, they have broken vendor up into packages.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/07/04/docker-io-debian-package-back-to-life/
This is probably the right thing to do, but it also means trouble for a podman .deb.
Basically there needs to be a separate build dependency, for each library under vendor/*.
Some of them are internal and can be combined, but they all need to be gone through 3.
It is still possible to do like the Ubuntu PPA (or various RPM), and just do a static build 4.
But is unlikely that it will go into Debian, https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/1742
Night
Day ended with a social event at the Steampunk Bar, before FOSS North tomorrow.
Most likely there will be more discussion on containers to come (Lightning Talk on Tue).