Le Wed, May 08, 2024 at 08:02:41AM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit : > > I read the docs on how Singularity is able to pull Docker images of Debian > Sid and build on top of them, and run and exec just like Docker/Podman. > Unfortunately it has its own Containerfile format ( > https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/quick_start.html#singularity-definition-files) > and the commands have their own syntax. I guess Debcraft could be extended > to support it, but that would require at least one Singularity user as > frequent contributor to test and develop Singularity-compatibility. > > The entire code base is shell code. Perhaps you want to take a look if it > looks hackable for you?
Hi Otto, I looked at the code, and while it would be easy to replace the podman commands to run containers, I wonder if there isn't a major roadblock: The main use of Singularity containers is to provide static images for software. The default is that the image is read-only and has write access to the host filesystems. Thus, running apt upgrade in a singularity container isn't something that is done usually. It might even be impossible, although I am not expert enough to make that statement firmly. Is there a chance debcraft can work from a static container provided by the user? I think that the key problem I have is that I want to use a build Debian packages that need no root access and that do not need to install dependencies that need root access, and I want to do that with user privileges only. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -
