Re: [atomic-devel] docker binary

[Waldemar Augustyn <waldemar astyn com>]

On 07/20/2015 11:41 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
> 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.
Fair enough. Maybe this needs time and some more thinking.  I wanted to
point out some use cases.  Thanks