[L2Ork-dev] request for mentorship: linux build environments

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:58 AM Sam Thursfield <samthursfield at pm.me> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> On Monday, 19 October 2020 17:34, Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 1.  Is LXD the standard way to create Linux containers which I'll be
> >     actively developing with? (I.e., I'll be adding arbitrary amounts of
> >     state to the container.) It looks nice but I can't tell if this is
> >     just some needless wrapper that Canonical is pushing all over Google
> >     searches. (And boy are they doing that!)
>
> I don't think it is. I had to Google what it is :)

Well, I know lxc has been around for awhile.

> If I have a container workflow, I often simply use `podman run` or `docker run` with these args:
>
>     --uidmap=0:1000:1000 -i -t --mount type=bind,source=/home/,destination=/var/home
>
> This maps 'root' in the container to my UID, and makes my home directory available under /var/home.

So in this case if you install all build dependencies in the
container, would you clone Purr Data into /var/home?

-Jonathan

>
> I have also looked into Toolbox which looks like a good way to manage multiple dev containers: https://github.com/containers/toolbox
>
> Toolbox is a Redhat project so it may or may not work well on Ubuntu right now...
>
> > 2.  Is there a way to run Purr Data inside the container but have the GUI usable?
>
> It's possible, using X11 forwarding. It's not always easy. Toolbox is supposed to handle this for you. Or you can do it yourself by doing some magic with the .Xauthority file which I can't tell you off the top of my head, but Google can probably suggest various options :)
>
> Sam
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