Docker Image With fpm

[everythingfunctional]

Now that fpm is in a usable state, I think we should try and create a docker image with the latest version installed, so people can use fpm in their CI.

[certik]

Yes. Even better we should distribute fpm as a single binary for each platform.

[everythingfunctional]

I think we should focus more on package manager distributions than just an executable. At a minimum we should support apt, yum, pacman, and homebrew. Probably also some others. Manually installed things don't get updated very often, if at all.

[certik]

Yes, we need all of those also.

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On Sun, May 31, 2020, at 8:11 PM, Brad Richardson wrote: I think we should focus more on package manager distributions than just an executable. At a minimum we should support `apt`, `yum`, `pacman`, and `homebrew`. Probably also some others. Manually installed things don't get updated very often, if at all. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#87 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAFAWAXGOLNFFNM2HC23I3RUME43ANCNFSM4NO5JRWQ>.

[milancurcic]

Let's not forget fpm update. This is something I'd expect as a user. fpm should be able to update itself.

I'm not a target audience for Docker image but I see its value.

Linux system package managers like apt and dnf I use occasionally, but I can't take them seriously because so many packages are out of date, so they're mostly good for mature (stable) packages. I agree one should be able to get fpm using those. Then also consider Homebrew, Linuxbrew, and Snapcraft.

[everythingfunctional]

I quickly slapped together a docker image here. I scheduled the CI to update weekly as well.

At some point this will deserve some effort to trim down the size of the resulting image. Right now I based it on Ubuntu and built fpm in the image. It should be possible to use a more lightweight starting point (like Alpine) and just copy in the fpm executable. Then we should create a more official one and publish it on docker hub.

[milancurcic]

Great! I think it's a good start. I suggest adding the Dockerfile (and associated instructions in the README.md) to the fpm repo.