Photon OS support for WSL2

[dcasota]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Industrial edge today embraced docker containers at factory level and are using their preferred edge connectors.

WSL2 on Windows 11 seems to become popular for developers. wsl --list --online shows up a list with Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Oracle, openSUSE, SLES. WSL2 kernel, cbl-mariner, is even more similar to Photon OS because of its common history.

Please, consider support for Photon OS on WSL2 managed (install/remove/update/modify/reinstall) by VMware By Broadcom Workstation as well.

Describe the solution you'd like

seamless Photon OS management experience [VMwareByBroadcom-/AWS-/Azure-/GCE-Hypervisor optimized, WSL2, generic]

Describe alternatives you've considered

edited 02/17/2024: see Photon OS on WSL2

[dcasota]

I have a question about tdnf.

Is tdnf supporting cbl-mariner? I haven't seen an official statement.

Booting Photon OS on WSL2 using --system param exposes the cbl-mariner repos.

PS C:\Users\myuser> wsl -d Ph5 --system -u root -e /bin/bash
root [ /mnt/c/Users/myuser ]# tdnf install -y ntp tzdata
ZONEINFO="Europe/Zurich"
set $ZONEINFO timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$ZONEINFO /etc/localtime
ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
hwclock --systohc --localtime
Loaded plugin: tdnfrepogpgcheck
Refreshing metadata for: 'CBL-Mariner Official Extras 2.0 x86_64'
Refreshing metadata for: 'CBL-Mariner Official Microsoft 2.0 x86_64'
Refreshing metadata for: 'CBL-Mariner Official Base 2.0 x86_64'
Package tzdata is already installed.   1324196 100%

Installing:
ntp                               x86_64                   4.2.8p15-3.cm2                    mariner-official-base      6.43M                     3.52M
[...]

Technically nothing wrong, but the cbl-mariner architecture has too much garbage security, and efficiently github-action'ified updates doesn't make it better. Sorry for the wording. In any case, tdnf update and tdnf distro-sync breaks in the --system scenario.

tdnf runs under LGPL version 2.1.
In cbl-mariner github, the license argument for utilizing tdnf is wrong. Which Apache2 license??

Tue Sep 03 2019 Mateusz Malisz <[email protected]> - 2.0.0-11
- Initial CBL-Mariner import from Photon (license: Apache2).

[dcasota]

unplanned, out of scope, #1542