On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 8:41:43 PM AEDT Cirujano Cuesta, Silvano wrote: > In the past "policy.json" was being installed by this package, but this > behavior got changed: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libpod/commit/3980d63cbc13c51369f3540eb32e > 53391199b91d Is there a question here? > Now it's expected to get the policy installed by another > recommended package: "buildah". Correct. > I suppose that such a change was needed to > avoid two Debian packages that are compatible trying to manage the same > file. Am I right? Not quite. Buildah is a lower level package so it is reasonable for it to own the policy. One package providing the file is quite enough. > But probably some prominent way to tell the user about how to get > "policy.json" (and probably also "registries.conf") is needed. Not really. Recommended packages are installed by default. README.Debian already contains a note about "policy.json". This is sufficient. > If not, people will be frequently stumbling over it. If they do not install Recommended packages? That's OK. > I did and someone else also did: > https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/1742#issuecomment-570952262 I think the only reason why you've stumbled upon the issue is because you are likely installed podman using `dpkg` command that installs no recommended packages. > I first thought on some message on installation, what might be useful. No... This is an optional file that is not even needed to those who build/ deploy their own OCI container images. > But in the end probably the place where it's failing is the best place to > let the user know about the solution... It is the same issue with Buildah... Buildah owns those conffiles and provides their man pages as well. > What about minor patching to report the potential issues? ??? I don't quite follow you... > Patching CheckForRegistries@cmd/podman/platform_linux.go [1] would suffice > for "registries.conf". "registries.conf" is an optional file. I think everything is good enough as it is now. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity.
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