add a local folder? about ariac

[zeidk]

Not sure what you are trying to do with the local folder but for testing purposes you can look at how it is done in build_team_system.bash
Everything in build_team_system.bash is happening in the image, so mkdir ~/some_local_folder will actually create some_local_folder in your image.

[dan9thsense]

What I want to do is copy a file or folder from my local drive into the image, rather than using wget or cloning a repository. That way I can test changes to the code without having to update the repo for every little change.

[Pavel-P]

For local testing you can use docker cp (https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cp/).
This is run outside of the container though, so it won't work in build_team_system.bash

[dan9thsense]

Hmmm, I was hoping there would be a way to integrate it into the build_team_system.bash or run_team_system.bash files, so it would work seamlessly. Seems odd that it can pull a repo but not pull from the local drive.

[stevegray954]

I'd like to second this request.

build_team_system.bash calls build_competitor_image.bash

@dan9thsense You'd have to copy your file/folder into the docker build context (the ariac-docker/ariac-competitor folder. The bash script already copies the build and run team system scripts there for this reason.

Inside the Dockerfile, why not copy the entire directory instead just those two files one at a time?

[zeidk]

After some testing, I think I found a way to do just that but there is a caveat.

1. You need to modify ariac-docker/ariac-competitor/ariac-competitor/Dockerfile
2. Copy the following command in ariac-docker/ariac-competitor/ariac-competitor/Dockerfile to copy the directory ariac_ws (from your computer) to /home/ariac-user/ariac_ws (in your image): COPY ariac_ws /home/ariac-user/ariac_ws

• Here is the caveat, the first argument of the COPY command (ariac_ws) should be in your context, i.e., it should also be in the directory ariac-docker/ariac-competitor/ariac-competitor. There are some ways to copy files and directories from outside the context but I will need to make some modifications and also long testing...and I will break things.
• It's probably a good idea to paste the above command right after FROM zeidknist/ariac4-competitor-base-melodic:latest in Dockerfile

3. Modify build_team_system.bash:

• Remove commands that create a workspace and fetch the source code (wget).
• cd into the workspace (/home/ariac-user/ariac_ws) and compile it.

[zeidk]

I will close this for now. Please follow the instructions above and let me know if I need to reopen this ticket.