Re: [atomic-devel] docker binary

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

On 07/20/2015 12:31 AM, Waldemar Augustyn wrote:
> I've been wondering about it.  Docker's docker is a single binary. 
> RedHat's docker is a binary plus some dozen shared libraries.  
Not sure I follow, we ship a single binary.  It is not statically
linked, it uses
shared libraries from the Host OS.  Is that what you mean?
> I
> certainly understand why a distro might do that.  But.... this is
> Atomic: everything is a container .  It matters.  Host services such as
> docker, systemctl, and a few others find their way to containers via
> bind mounts.  It helps if the bind mounted binary does not try to link
> against local libraries. Especially if they don't exist, or they do,
> wrong version.
We provide no guarantees for this, not does any other Distro that I am
aware of.
>
> Is there a chance Atomic might build docker, systemctl, journalctl, etc.
> as single binaries?  Or, at least reduce the number of dependencies.
>
We do not plan on rebuilding the entire distribution as static binaries
at this time.