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Toolbox Thread

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:51 PM

OK, so I figured out a better path forward for toolbox vs distrobox.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:51 PM

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/rhel9/toolbox/61532be3bc74e0be7ca66e40?architecture=amd64&image=65a8fbdad59cca758b7d47db
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/tree/main/images/rhel/9.3

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:52 PM

These containers are identical.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:52 PM

One is provided directly as a command line option to toolbox, the other you would have to log into a container registry to get.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:52 PM

My instinct is since they are both built on UBI, I'd prefer to just use what Toolbox ships.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:52 PM

So as far as a ujust script is concerned, it would be pretty simple.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:53 PM

Because toolbox supports a smaller amount of images, it should be pretty easy to implement.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:55 PM

I'm going to see if it's as easy as doing toolbox create --distro rhel --release latesttoolbox create --distro rhel --release latest

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:55 PM

I don't think that will work though.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:57 PM

it doesn't.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:57 PM

Ugh...

NoelOP•1/31/24, 9:59 PM

I'm debating if it's worth shipping a ujust command for toolbox at this point.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:00 PM

It only supports:
- Arch
- Fedora
- RHEL
- Ubuntu

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:00 PM

You can do images for it.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:00 PM

and theoretically the container images for distrobox would like work.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:00 PM

but they aren't directly supported by the project.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:04 PM

OK.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:04 PM

One more thing.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:04 PM

and I'm done.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:04 PM

Here is a gotcha with Distrobox.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:04 PM

if you install subscription-managersubscription-manager on your machine without subscribing, that is when distrobox breaks.

NoelOP•1/31/24, 10:05 PM

if you are registered using subscription manager, the redhat.reporedhat.repo exists and your containers will not complain.

NNoel if you are registered using subscription manager, the `redhat.repo` exists and y...

89luca89•2/1/24, 10:50 PM

Hi Noel, I've just pushed a commit to fix this

889luca89 Hi Noel, I've just pushed a commit to fix this 👍

NoelOP•2/1/24, 10:51 PM

I saw that! Thank you so much for doing that!

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