Includes in Capstanfile

[dmarti]

I'm experimenting with running a libevent-based web server under OSv using Capstan. It would be useful to have a make target that would write a file with a list of libraries used (so far just libevent-2.0.so.5) and then include that file in Capstanfile.

For future I would like to be able to build an entire blog site (Markdown->HTML, JavaScript, images...) and include all the web content pathnames in Capstanfile as well.

Related discussion from the Docker project: moby/moby#735

[penberg]

@dmarti There's support for including RPM packages in an image. Would that be sufficient for your case?

[dmarti]

@penberg Yes, if I can do it from a local copy of the RPM and don't have to go out to a yum repository. It is an extra step though and not everyone who is building images will be comfortable writing RPM specs as well.

[penberg]

@dmarti Right, makes sense. It's trivial to implement but the exact Capstanfile syntax needs some thinking.