[libvirt] [PATCH v4 0/7] Facilitate running libvirt builds via docker containers

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:41:41AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > For a while QEMU has provided simple make rules for building QEMU inside
> > standard docker container environments. This provides an equivalent
> > mechanism for libvirt inspired by QEMU's.
> > 
> 
> Can we change this so that we don't mention docker everywhere?  These are just
> containers and you can run them using other tools with no docker dependency.  I
> know I can set an alias docker=podman and it will just work, but now that
> podman, buildah, skopeo and others work on my machine (even non-systemd one) I
> think it would be nice stop requiring "docker" if it is not needed.  And to make
> Dan Walsh not cringe that much.

The patch series invokes docker from the Makefile and the CI systems we
are targetting with this also use docker, so it is not wrong to refer to
docker. Furthermore everyone knows what you mean when you refer to docker,
while only a subset of people will have any idea what podman is.

Regards,
Daniel
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