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

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:55, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:52 PM Andrej Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:48, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:46 PM Andrej Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org> wrote:
> > > > Have you tried doing this on a newly installed system? Because that’s what I did: installed Debian in a VM, installed podman, attempted to pull an image, got an error. Not much more.

> > Suggested packages:
> >   containers-storage docker-compose
> > Recommended packages:
> >   buildah fuse-overlayfs slirp4netns catatonit | tini | dumb-init uidmap golang-github-containernetworking-plugin-dnsname criu
 
> Have you seen this? There are a bunch of recommended packages that you
> don't install. Especially `uidmap`.
> It's just fine if you don't install them, then you don't have a
> working podman without root. You need to use root to run podman if you
> don't install the `uidmap` package.

1) Reinhard says it’s not mandatory, see above.
2) Docker doesn’t require installing anything else to be useful for non-root users, if podman does, it should be in Depends.

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Cheers,
  Andrej