Description of problem: Lot's of videos praising it on YouTube - one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj064D9ZUl8 https://distrobox.it/#installation https://repology.org/project/distrobox/versions Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest is 1.5.0.2 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Note the warning on https://distrobox.it/ Security implications Isolation and sandboxing is not the main aim of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drives and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a flatpak. Anyway, assigning to all packagers collectively. If there are no legal or other issues, one of them might be willing to package it.
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugsSource RPM: (none) => distrobox
Sounds good - there is a lot of buzz going on around this as wll as praise - for home lab use seems really interesting . . . Would be a welcome addition for Mageia - FYI it also supports Podman as well as Docker . . . Thanks in advance for the packager who decides to do this ;-)
This seems to be a convenient way to experiment and try out things. What is the reason it need to be packaged? - Have you tried installing it per description to download and run?
URL: (none) => https://distrobox.it/CC: (none) => fri
I tried the install through wget (after manually installing Docker on Mageia) - and I ran into issues that the container stops once started ?!? Reported here: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/1025 Knowing that other distributions have it packaged and it just works - thought it would be nice if Mageia was also on the list . . .
Two problems with packaging less used software: 1) We are low on people so needed for most important stuff 2) due to 1) packages like this may get less updated Maybe a better solution is to document in wiki how to install from upstream, like done for i.e https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QElectroTech https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Google_Earth
Understood - was worth a shot! I will wait for the response from my open ticket with distrobox as to why my containers don't stay running. Mageia is unfortunately not a "mainstream" distro - but I've been around it so long, don't really want to change! It's still one of the best IMHO . . . Thanks anyway.
We have not said no. -It is possible someone in this interesting to package. Please keep us updated with the progress of installing. Maybe you could make a wiki page on it then?
Once again, understood! Will give it my best - no promises ;-) Thx again.
*** Bug 33926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
CC: (none) => michaelfm21
It seems that Distrobox need some work upstream (or tweak in packaging) to support current Mageia: "Mageia is not a supported host distribution" https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/1025#issuecomment-1817873306
It should be fixed. I installed distrobox using this script: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sudo sh I installed Ubuntu and it is working normally. https://paste.centos.org/view/2e63137f
So it is working as-is from upstream :) Please create a page "Distrobox" in our wiki, with a short info about Distrobox, and how to install. If any tweak or optimisation is needed now or later, it can be added there. Thus it will be found when searching.