[pkg-go] Bug#983395: podman lacks a runtime dependency on rootlesskit

[Andrej Shadura]

Control: reopen -1

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:23, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:33 AM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:47:20AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> > Control: reassign -1 src:libpod 3.0.0+dfsg1-2
>> > 
>> > On Ma, 23 feb 21, 14:26:12, Andrej Shadura wrote:
>> > > Package: src:podman
>> > > Version: 3.0.0+dfsg1-2
>> > > Severity: important
>> > > 
>> > > Dear Maintainer,
>> > > 
>> > > I get an error message when I try to run podman:
>> > > 
>> > > Error: Cannot connect to the Podman socket, make sure there is a Podman REST API service running.:
>> > > cannot find newuidmap: exec: "newuidmap": executable file not found in $PATH
>> > > 
>> > > Installing package rootlesskit fixes the issue.
>> 
>> The errors look like you don't have "newuidmap" binary, instead of "rootlesskit".
>> For newuidmap, it's provided by uidmap, which is in podman's Recommends.
> 
> Shengjing is correct, podman works on my laptop just fine without rootlesskit. 
> The uidmap package is required for running 'rootless' podman, podman itself
> should work just fine without it in 'rootful' mode.

I may be wrong about the package needed to make it work  but it does *not* in fact work at all without it. It just prints the error message and exits. I’m not sure it’s fair to close the issue without investigating further.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej
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