Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 brumaire, an CCXXV, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > This sounds like you're looking for debtags, which gives you the ability > > to subset packages by different tags. (For example, if you wanted all of > > the package management tools: > > >

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-17 Thread Nicolas George
Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : > Also, if I > wanted to run another program from stable, I could build another docker > image for that, but due to the clever way docker works, there'd be only > one copy of the

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-17 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 brumaire, an CCXXV, Don Armstrong a écrit : > This sounds like you're looking for debtags, which gives you the ability > to subset packages by different tags. (For example, if you wanted all of > the package management tools: > > debtags search admin::package-management; > > gives

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > There is a feature in Debian that I find missing in Debian, I wonder if > other people would agree with me. > > I call that feature "layered package manager". This sounds like you're looking for debtags, which gives you the ability to subset packages b

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:18:26PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > If I understand correctly how Docker works, its images are big blobs > that contain the program they are meant to distribute plus all its > dependencies. Am I mistaken? That's broadly true, at least, they are presented to the user t

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 12-11-2016 18:18, Nicolas George wrote: > If I understand correctly how Docker works, its images are big blobs > that contain the program they are meant to distribute plus all its > dependencies. Am I mistaken? > > If it works like that, that means when the next OpenSSL security issue > is found

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-12 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : > docker does not work as you describe (and I know of nothing that does > anything close to your idea), but it does suit some of the uses you > mentioned (the ones quoted). If I understand correctly how Docker works, its images are b

Re: Layers for the package manager

2016-11-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11-11-2016 17:34, Nicolas George wrote: > Being able to install incompatible packages at the same time. > > Isolate servers. Run servers in a layer where the compilers and other > development tools are not visible. It does not actually add any security but > it may help mitigate or slow down an