owtaylor / fedora-packager-container

Script to run a container for Fedora packaging work

fedora-packager-container

This project contains a command line client fedpkg-c that runs a container set up for Fedora contributor development - RPMs, Flatpaks, Containers, etc.

Installing via flatpak

You can build and install a Flatpak that wraps fedpkg-c by running flatpak.sh in this directory. (This is meant for development - eventually the Flatpak would be distributed pre-built.)

podman and sudo

Hopefully we'll eventually be able use the rootless mode of podman together with mock, but at that moment, the container needs to be executed as root to map users correctly and get the necessary permissions to create a chroot, so fedpkg-c runs podman as 'sudo podman'.

Command line usage

fedpkg-c configure: prompts for some basic configuration parameters. (Automatically is run the first time) fedpkg-c build: builds the container fedpkg-c shell: run a shell in the container - starting the container in the background fedpkg-c destroy: stop the background container, and remove it.

License and Copyright

fedora-packager-container is copyright Owen Taylor [email protected] and Red Hat, Inc., and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

fedora-packager-container's Issues

Failed to create a new container, symlinking to /var/home

$HOME is /home/feborges, but /home is a symlink to /var/home
Please adjust /etc/passwd so that $HOME is set correctly

$ podman --version
podman version 1.4.2

It seems related to what has been fixed in toolbox, commit debarshiray/toolbox@c2e4155

Is a update to Fedora 30 planned?