Re: Docker build simplification

Hi Dave

I have installed docker, applied your patch and run "*docker build .*".
Image has been created without REPOSITORY and TAG is this OK.
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Rest I have tested it works fine.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 4:44 PM Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 6:59 AM Ashesh Vashi <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:21 PM Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The attached patch simplifies the Docker container build so that it can
>>> be done entirely using "docker build" in the root of a source tree. It also
>>> enables building the container from a tarball, not just a git checkout.
>>> This does mean that container builds may now also include any garbage in
>>> the source tree from which they're built, but conversely offers the benefit
>>> of making it easy to build a container with code changes in it without
>>> having to commit first.
>>>
>>> Akshay, can you look it over to make sure I haven't done anything
>>> obviously stupid? Feedback from others is also welcome of course.
>>>
>> Dave,
>>
>> Is there any reason - we're not using the requirements.txt from the
>> docker file, and installing the packages separately.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. It installs Python dependencies in two places;
>
> - In the documentation builder intermediate container. This doesn't use
> requirements.txt, and installs just the bare minimum required to install
> the docs.
>
> - In the final container. This does use requirements.txt.
>
> I suppose there's a minor simplification that can be made to the way I'm
> installing the requirements.txt file itself. At the moment it gets copied
> to the app builder, and then from there to the final container. I don't
> think it's actually needed in the app builder so I could just copy it from
> the host straight into the final container.
>
> Or did you mean something else?
>
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