[Suggestion] Add support for microdnf in the distrobox-enter script for RHEL UBI Minimal support

[MikuOcta]

The RHEL UBI-minimal platform uses as a package manager microdnf rather than YUM or DNF. It would be nice for when the "distrobox-enter" command is used, to first install dnf or yum on the image, then install the other requiered packages for the missing dependencies.

distrobox-enter's errors with the RHEL UBI-minimal image

[89luca89]

Hi @MikuOcta
Do you know of, or point to, a list of those minimal containers using microdnf? So I can test multiple environments

Thanks!

[MikuOcta]

@89luca89 As I am aware, only minimal RHEL UBI Images (ubi8-minimal and ubi7-minimal) use microdnf. Let me point you to the information from the RedHat website

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/microdnf

[MikuOcta]

Also, microdnf (even if not installed by default) can be used on other RedHat-like platforms as well, such as Fedora or CentOS Stream

[89luca89]

OK perfect!
Not a problem adding the pkg manager detection, just to check which package names I need
Hopefully it uses the same repos as normal yum/dnf

[MikuOcta]

OK perfect! Not a problem adding the pkg manager detection, just to check which package names I need Hopefully it uses the same repos as normal yum/dnf

Yes it does. microdnf is just a simpler implementation of DNF for containers. Everything should work like DNF in terms of packages. And thanks for your time as well! 😊

[89luca89]

Done! 👍