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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I had to step away from it because packages are just too old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Have you considered using testing instead of stable or Siduction?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I should be more clear: specifically I was rebuilding a Docker image based on Debian and needed Node.js for one build step, then Ruby for another as well as the final image.

In the Dockerfile there were a ton of weird commands for simply installing Node.js and Ruby whereas on Alpine Linux I could simply install the needed versions from apk. I understand it’s preferable to build these from scratch but in the case of Node.js I was looking to simply compile a bunch of assets then throw away the layer.

I could’ve spent a bunch of time figuring it out for Debian but I wanted a smaller image in the end anyway too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are. You can get .debs through other sources quite often, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is what I specifically hate about building Docker images based on Debian. Half your Dockerfile ends up mucking about with third-party repositories, verifying keys, etc.