Use of podman release with AlmaLinux

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Use of podman release with AlmaLinux

srbala opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

@mgoltzsche this is more of question. Is it possible to use release files with AlmaLinux instead of Alpine, what would be prereqeust packages required.

Max Goltzsche · Answer 1 · Sun Oct 17 2021 22:34:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@srbala since all binaries built from this repository are statically linked you should be able to copy and use them within any other Linux distribution, including AlmaLinux.
The runtime dependencies that need to be installed additionally are listed here.

Bala Raman · Answer 2 · Tue Oct 19 2021 20:38:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you @mgoltzsche.

Would be interested accepting a PR for AlmaLinux 'tagged' image variant for your docker releases? It would be a good example and direct use/experiment for el8 users. If yes what would be preferred tag name.

Max Goltzsche · Answer 3 · Wed Oct 20 2021 06:32:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hm, I am not sure what the benefit is. Can you tell me your use case? If you want a RHEL kind of image you could use the official one (quay.io/podman/stable), couldn't you?
For me one of the reasons for maintaining this repository is to ship a small podman image with minimal dependencies as opposed to have 73mb overhead the almalinux container comes with.

Bala Raman · Answer 4 · Thu Oct 21 2021 13:00:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

One of the thing I like about your releases are size and closely follows the DEV releases. Quay releases seems bit off, might it follows fedora release plans, since it built on top of it. Just one point about AlmaLinux size, micro version is only 13mb compressed and 36mb uncompressed.