My thinking was more along the lines of "If I'm going to run this as root, I might as well run docker." And I saw podman rootless mode kinda equivalent to the docker group when using docker. (But I am a novice with podman, I pretty much just discovered it.)
If you want some comparisons, on Fedora podman rootless just works (I don't actually know want dependencies they install, because I use it to run one-off containers on my laptop -- the servers run docker) The errors were not that cryptic by themselves but required some googling to understand what binaries were missing and what packages provided them. I think adding some instructions on the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Podman) should be enough if dependencies are to be minimal. On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 15:20, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Control: tag -1 upstream > Control: severity -1 minor > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:09 AM Giuseppe <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Package: podman >> Version: 3.0.1+dfsg1-3+deb11u1 >> Severity: important >> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I really think packages uidmap and slirp4netns should be full-fledged >> dependencies for podman. >> >> I say this because after installing podman and trying to run some containers >> in rootless mode I found myself fighting cryptic error messages that were >> solved by installing those two packages. >> > > My thinking when choosing dependencies was: > > - podman has significant performance benefits when running as root > - the podman package dependencies should be as minimal as possible, in > particular on system where podman is running as root. > > I do sympathize with the cryptic error message. May I ask you to forward your > suggestion on wording directly to upstream at > https://github.com/containers/podman/issues ? > > Please do let me know the upstream bug number and your thoughts on this. > > Best, > -rt > _______________________________________________ Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers
