From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:05:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180616180542.6be739a5@professor-x> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr9r8LHWRvEjq1-axCPe_3JdLt=f6oZqJsdK+qqN8LTRPA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:45:18 -0400
Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
> <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Am Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2018, 16:14:48 CEST schrieb Alec Warner:
> >
> > > They seem to offer docker packages, so we could just nab those
> > > and run
> > them
> > > in containers on hosts. I'm not too keen on doing a bunch of
> > > (really
> > what I
> > > consider busywork) to try to 'get it working on Gentoo.' We
> > > already use upstream provided containers and I expect that to
> > > continue as upstreams continue to abandon the 'release packages'
> > > model and move to 'release
> > sets
> > > of containers' model.
> > >
> > > -A
> >
> > Apart from all the implications that have already been brought up,
> > that's
> >
> > 1) a public relations nightmare waiting to happen
> > (future discussion: "Err, wait, central Gentoo infrastructure runs
> > on an Ubuntu-based container? Well, then we switch directly to
> > Ubuntu.")
>
> Its unclear what the upstream containers might be based on. CoreOS or
> Alpine Linux are both common bases (and CoreOS is ironically a
> Gentoo-powered[1] distro using our tree and tools.) I'm not sure
> people would switch because of that.
>
>
Except that Red-Hat just bought CoreOS and are intending to replace the
Gentoo base with Red-Hat. (Reported by one of my co-workers that just
attended the big docker conference and at least one of the talks where
that was discussed)
--
Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-17 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-09 7:25 [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub Michał Górny
2018-06-09 7:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-09 7:52 ` Michał Górny
2018-06-09 9:11 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-06-11 12:15 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-06-11 13:28 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-14 9:47 ` James Le Cuirot
2018-06-14 14:14 ` Alec Warner
2018-06-14 14:25 ` Mauricio Lima Pilla
2018-06-15 0:33 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-06-15 1:14 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2018-06-15 2:16 ` Alec Warner
2018-06-15 7:20 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-06-16 23:55 ` Virgil Dupras
2018-06-17 0:25 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-16 21:58 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-16 23:14 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-16 23:45 ` Alec Warner
2018-06-17 1:05 ` Brian Dolbec [this message]
2018-06-14 19:55 ` kuzetsa
2018-06-15 0:26 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-06-15 2:27 ` kuzetsa
2018-06-15 11:50 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-06-15 14:55 ` kuzetsa
2018-06-15 15:31 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-15 16:03 ` kuzetsa
2018-06-15 16:11 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-15 16:22 ` kuzetsa
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