On 20/01/2026 7:35 pm, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:53:33PM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
I probably have just read it over: I have to prefix the
'tuxmake/korg-clang' by 'docker.io/'. Is that a problem of my system
configuration (Debian forky, no special podman config)?
Some distributions ship registries.conf [1] to allow unqualified image
names but I do not think Debian does. Personally, I use the full name
regardless but it should be easy to create it for commands such as these
to work. I use:
unqualified-search-registries = ['docker.io', 'ghcr.io', 'quay.io']
[1]: https://podman.io/docs/installation#registriesconf
And this is not directly related to the scripts/container tool as it
just passes the image name as-is. Maybe the example in the docs
should explicitly use docker.io/ though.
I tested a tiny bit with podman as runtime backend. If I leave out the
'-r podman' podman's docker emulation is in effect and fails with:
$ scripts/container -i docker.io/tuxmake/korg-clang -- make LLVM=1 -j8
olddefconfig
Emulate Docker CLI using podman. Create /etc/containers/nodocker to quiet
msg.
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_15': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_19': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_22': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_25': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_28': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '.tmp_31': Permission denied
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
error: error opening 'scripts/basic/.fixdep.d': Permission denied
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:114: scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/src/Makefile:655: scripts_basic] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
[exit code 2]
But with '-r podman' it works like a charm.
Would it make sense to switch the default runtime to podman to
prevent non-functional podman-docker emulation? (Or is this just a
problem on my machine?)
Yeah, I think it would be better to prefer podman over docker if both
existed on the system. Something like this should do that?
diff --git a/scripts/container b/scripts/container
index dbe92630f05b..50c4ae851001 100755
--- a/scripts/container
+++ b/scripts/container
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class PodmanRuntime(CommonRuntime):
class Runtimes:
"""List of all supported runtimes"""
- runtimes = [DockerRuntime, PodmanRuntime]
+ runtimes = [PodmanRuntime, DockerRuntime]
@classmethod
def get_names(cls):
Yes this should do the trick, although the help message and docs
would need to be updated too.
A better way still would be to make it able to distinguish between
actual Docker and docker-compatible Podman (e.g. if it's just a
symlink) so it's not just down to luck. This may be added to the
list of potential improvements.
Feel free to make these tweaks now, or we might wait a bit to see if
others have more feedback with further changes and I can send a v4.
Cheers,
Guillaume
