Building from scratch | section "Fedora"

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hello. At https://podman.io/docs/installation#building-from-scratch, which seems to apply to Fedora, the packages go, iptables and pkgconfig do not exist in Fedora's repositories. However their equivalent could exist; here are those that could be such ones:

$ dnf --installed rq --qf '%{name} | %{summary}' golang iptables-libs pkgconf
golang | The Go Programming Language
iptables-libs | libxtables and iptables extensions userspace support
pkgconf | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Of course that would require confirmation from one of yours. If confirmed, the whole amount of packages required for installation could be selected as follows (compacted variant):

$ sudo dnf -y install {btrfs-progs,device-mapper,glib2,glibc,gpgme,libassuan,libgpg-error,libseccomp,libselinux}-devel \
conmon containernetworking-plugins containers-common crun git glibc-static golang golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man iptables-libs make pkgconf

It is unclear whether the installation of the packages mentionned as part of the installation command that follows the comand text make package-install must be operated before the execution of that command.

[cgiradkar]

@Luap99 need more clarification here

[Luap99]

@Ricky-Tigg I am not sure why you say these do not exist?

$ sudo dnf install go iptables pkgconfig
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:20 ago on Fri 07 Jul 2023 10:02:50 CEST.
Package golang-1.19.10-1.fc37.x86_64 is already installed.
Package iptables-legacy-1.8.8-5.fc37.x86_64 is already installed.
Package iptables-nft-1.8.8-5.fc37.x86_64 is already installed.
Package pkgconf-pkg-config-1.8.0-3.fc37.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.

All of them install just fine, sure they are alias but that doesn't matter. The dnf install command is valid as is and in case of iptables it doesn't make sense to switch it as there are two variants and it i up to package manger to choose the right one not us.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Output against which I created this report:

$ dnf -q list go iptables pkgconfig
Error: No matching Packages to list

dnf install takes <spec>(!) as argument. dnf list takes only <package-file-spec> which is similar to <package-spec>, except provides matching is not performed. Therefore <package-file-spec> is matched only against NEVRAs and file provides. Then in your command, provides is implied therefore install is effective while in my command it isn't , so is not effective. Yet in the current instructions, it can't be deducted that expected to install are those packages installed along with your very command. We can close if you believe they are explicit enough.

(!) It can be <package-spec>, @<module-spec>, or @<group-spec>.

[TomSweeneyRedHat]

@lsm5 any thoughts?

[lsm5]

@Ricky-Tigg package-install target is broken right now. I'm currently working on it.

Also, what version of Fedora are you using? Looks like different dnf versions might produce different outputs, especially dnf5.

dnf -q list go iptables pkgconfig
Installed packages
golang-bin.x86_64      1.20.5-1.fc39 fedora
iptables-nft.x86_64    1.8.9-4.fc39  fedora

Available packages
gcc-go.x86_64          13.1.1-4.fc39 rawhide
iptables-legacy.x86_64 1.8.9-4.fc39  rawhide

If it helps, we can specify actual package names or add additional cases for different dnf versions.

[Ricky-Tigg]

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
$ dnf --version | head -1
4.16.1

[lsm5]

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
$ dnf --version | head -1
4.16.1

@Ricky-Tigg thanks. #174 should just work (TM) as it's being continuously tested with all active versions of fedora and centos stream. That PR depends on containers/podman#19214 which should be going in anytime now.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Lucky RPM-users; Thank you.