[kata-dev] OBS packaging reorganization proposal

Tao Peng bergwolf at hyper.sh
Wed Sep 19 09:05:33 UTC 2018


On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Marco Vedovati <mvedovati at suse.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we at SUSE think it would be great to have Kata Containers officially
> available in both openSUSE and SLE (enterprise) repositories. Our
> longer term vision is to integrate Kata Containers into the SUSE
> Container-as-a-Service platform as an additional container runtime. At
> the moment we support docker and cri-o, and kata looks like a nice
> addition :)
>
> This email is to propose a reorganization of the OBS packaging and get
> any feedback from you. I kicked off the discussion already with Carlos
> and Eric and this is the outcome:
>
> - Move all the packages on OBS from home:katacontainers to a new
> official development project under devel:kubic [1] (e.g.
> devel:kubic:katacontainers or whatever name you prefer).
> "devel" projects are associated with higher trust and visibility than
> "home" projects.
>
> - You can keep the build targets you currently have for the other
> distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS,
> etc...)
>
> - The relevant packages will be linked from devel:kubic:katacontainers
> to devel:kubic ("linking" is a way to avoid duplication of package
> sources), and from there we can set up the build targets to support all
> of the SUSE distribution flavours.
> This means that after a while [2], you can expect on any SUSE
> distribution to just do something like `sudo zypper install "kata-*"`,
> and have Kata Containers installed, without dealing with extra
> repositories.
>
>
> How does this sounds to you?
>
Cool! Looking forward to seeing it generally available via `zypper`. I
like the green lizard :-)

Once it is done, we also need to update our installation guide to
point to the new address.

Cheers,
Tao

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bergwolf at hyper.sh



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