On 2/25/20 12:05 PM, Michal Schorm wrote: > Hello, > > Will anybody be able to explain to me the current state of the > containers & containerization in Fedora, please? > > I have some questions, but the more I searched for whom & where to > ask, the more confused I became. > > -- > > 1) There ́s an IRC on freenode, '#fedora-containers' channel. > The TOPIC set contains the following message: > "The place for container runtimes and application containers. > Forums @ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/containers, > visit the site @ https://containers.fedoraproject.org > (website operational at some point in August)." > However no link mentioned are accessible. > > 2) There is 'Fedora Container & Tools Documentation' [1] > It is only half-filled with information, some part missing entirely. > Even parts as 'Container Guidelines' [2]. > Btw the wiki gladly redirects there ^ [3]. > Btw there are some scratch notes about the guidelines from damn 2017 > [4], which google offers me rather than the actual guidelines (because > they don't exist) > > 3) So ... who is in charge of it? Whom to contact? How? Where? > Does Fedora count with Containers or does it already thrown it overboard? > > 4) The container I am maintainer of (in pagure in 'container' > namespace) is not branched automatically. The last branch is 'f30', > but now I want to update it and add the missing branches. I have no > idea how should I do it though, since (1) (2) are such a mess. > I can try 'git push', but anyway, it won't solve the issue, it's not > branched automatically. > > 5) The Dockerfile (are we still using this name? shouldn't it be > 'containerfile' now, with podman?) Containerfile will not work with Docker by default, so if you want to stick to Dockerfile, it is fine. > starts with line like: > " FROM registry.fedoraproject.org/f30/....." > How can I substitute the Fedora release version with a variable, so I > can share the same content amongst branches for different Fedora > releases? You could specify this as ARG and then have the caller pass in the version of Fedora ARG=RELEASE=f31 ... FROM registry.fedoraproject.org/RELEASE/.... ... podman build --build-arg RELEASE=f30 -f Dockerfile . > [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/containers/ > [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/containers/guidelines/guidelines/ > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Container:Guidelines > [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Container:Guidelines > > -- > > Michal Schorm > Software Engineer > Core Services - Databases Team > Red Hat > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
