[pkg-go] Bug#971815: podman: --init is broken: /usr/libexec/podman/catatonit not found

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Antonio,

sorry for taking so long to get back to you

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:15 PM Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:39:43PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > Package: podman
> > Version: 2.0.6+dfsg1-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > I was testing some things that I usually run against docker with podman,
> > and discovered that --init does not work:
> >
> > $ docker run --init debian echo Hello world
> > Hello world
> > $ podman run --init debian echo Hello world
> > Error: container-init binary not found on the host: stat
> /usr/libexec/podman/catatonit: no such file or directory
> >
> > I found https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/4159 upstream
> >
> > I did a quick packaging of catatonit, installed it, and with the
> > attached patch, I can make it work. I have just submitted an ITP for
> > catatonit.
> >
> > $ podman run --init debian echo Hello world
> > Hello world
> >
> > Should I go ahead and upload catatonit? Or would you rather point to a
> > different init by default? It seems we have quite some of them in the
> > archive already (tini, dumb-init, ...)?
>
> Hi, ping. It would be nice to have some feedback on this, so we can make
> --init work out of the box.
>
> Should I upload catatonit?
>
> Should I make it provide /usr/libexec/podman/catatonit, or are you
> willing to apply my patch to src:libpod?
>

please go ahead with packaging catatonit. Regarding the symlink, I don't
have a strong preference, your patch seems reasonable to me!

-rt


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard
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