[GNC-dev] Building debian files within Docker

[Dale Phurrough]

I'm not a good resource to troubleshoot snap. In the error message you got,
it gave a url. I clicked and there's a lot of information at that post on
the topic. Perhaps it can help you.

Meanwhile, the stable docker 19.03 just appeared today on Docker's official
package repos. And it supports Ubuntu Disco. You can use
https://get.docker.com/ if you want for easy install. Or follow the written
instructions at https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/

Timing! ;-)

--Dale




On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:23 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> Dale,
>
> I got the message about missing /snap/bin in the Path, but it is there.
> Any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> steve at SteveLaptop:~$ sudo snap install docker
> Connect docker:firewall-control to core:firewall-control
>          Warning: /snap/bin was not found in your $PATH. If you've not
> restarted your session since you
>          installed snapd, try doing that. Please see
> https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/9469 for more
>          details.
>
> docker 18.06.1-ce from Canonical✓ installed
>
> steve at SteveLaptop:~$ echo $PATH
>
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
>
> steve at SteveLaptop:~$ snap version
> snap    2.41
> snapd   2.41
> series  16
> ubuntu  19.04
> kernel  5.0.0-27-generic
>
> steve at SteveLaptop:~$ cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="Ubuntu"
> VERSION="19.04 (Disco Dingo)"
> ID=ubuntu
> ID_LIKE=debian
> PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 19.04"
> VERSION_ID="19.04"
> HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
> SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
> PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="
> https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
> VERSION_CODENAME=disco
> UBUNTU_CODENAME=disco
>
> steve at SteveLaptop:~$ ps
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>  2746 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>  4469 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
>
> And I can see the /snap/bin folder.
>
> --Steve
>
> On 9/9/19 6:12 AM, Dale Phurrough wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for checking in. I've never tested using the dev-docker
> > containers to build .deb within them. Long-term I would like it to
> > build containerized apps like snap, flatpak, etc. and maybe deb's come
> > along for free.
> >
> > I vaguely remember reading "each package manager/person maintains
> > their own blahblah to create their distro's packages" If that's true
> > and this package metadata it isn't centrally kept by the core GnuCash
> > team...then I suspect it's technically possible to build deb packages
> > within the containers (since they are full OSs), but that the GnuCash
> > team doesn't yet have it automated because they don't coordinate/have
> > the packager(s) metadata for each distro.
> >
> > True, no stable release of a Docker package to run on Disco yet. As an
> > alternative, you could run the testing release of Docker. Or...run the
> > snap for Docker. Running the snap removes your OS version conflict +
> > gives you the stable Docker 18.06 which is a very well tested and rich
> > version of Docker.  https://snapcraft.io/docker  By that webpage,
> > disco is the 2nd most popular OS on which it runs.
> >
> > --Dale
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:10 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
> > <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dale,
> >
> >     Are you able to build debian (*.deb) packages within your various
> >     Ubuntu
> >     docker environments?
> >
> >     Disco (Ubuntu 19.04) complains about Docker not being available
> >     for this
> >     version.
> >
> >     --
> >     Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
> >     Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com <mailto:Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com>
> >     kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
> >     253-350-0166
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> >
>
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> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
> kg7je at arrl.net
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