retitle 755079 Disable index on non-amd64 thanks On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:23:53PM +0300, Mert Dirik wrote: > Dear Maintainers,
Howdy, Mert, > As far as I see, most images on the Docker Hub Registry is built for amd64 > architecture, while > docker.io package of Debian exists on other architectures like armhf, armel > and > i386; on which > the prebuilt images can't be run. (docker run gives "exec format error"). That's right. We should likely disable index stuff on non-amd64. You can still use `docker import` and import a debootstraped image on non-amd64 hosts. > I don't know about the other architectures, but Debian i386 is capable of > running amd64 binaries, if the processor of the system and the kernel running > are both 64 bit. > > linux-image-amd64 package is already available in i386 repository and > installing & rebooting with it is enough for docker to run amd64 containers, > so > IMHO it is appropriate for docker.io package to recommend/suggest the amd64 > capable kernel on i386 and also briefly mention the situation in the > README.Debian. Euch. I'd rather see this bug turn into disable-the-registery. I'll retitle. > Thank you very much for your contributions, To you as well, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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