Re: [Automated-testing] [PATCH v1 1/2] scripts: add tool to run containerized builds

[Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>]

Hello David,

On 17/12/2025 10:56 am, David Gow wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 at 21:58, Guillaume Tucker via
> lists.yoctoproject.org <gtucker=gtucker.io@lists.yoctoproject.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Add a 'scripts/container' tool written in Python to run any command in
>> the source tree from within a container.  This can typically be used
>> to call 'make' with a compiler toolchain image to run reproducible
>> builds but any arbitrary command can be run too.  Only Docker and
>> Podman are supported for this initial version.
>>
>> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/affb7aff-dc9b-4263-bbd4-a7965c19ac4e@gtucker.io/
>> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
>> ---
> 
> I gave this a go, and am liking it so far. My only real complaints are
> that the defaults don't totally match my prejudices. :-)
> 
> Having a good default container, and perhaps falling back
> automatically to podman if docker isn't running (or just defaulting to
> podman) would make this very convenient for one-line
> tests/reproducers.

Many thanks for your feedback, I'm glad that worked for you.

Yes, the default 'gcc' image doesn't actually work in practice.  I've
proposed something else in another email to drop the default for now
but aim to provide "first-party" container images using kernel.org
toolchains which may give us some useful default later on.

Then good point about the default container runtime, I'll update the
logic to automatically look for Docker and Podman - basically iterate
through the supported runtimes - in the v2.

Cheers,
Guillaume