BlueBuild•2mo ago

What is the `main` image in cli module documentation?

Some modules such as https://blue-build.org/reference/modules/copy/ say that This module is currently only available with the use_unstable_cli option on the GHA or using the main image. When building locally, what does the main image here refer to? Is this tied to using only ublue-main images? I've tried using each of the following 4 images in distrobox.ini, and none of these 4 seems to have any --help option to enable use of type: copy. Building images locally seems to ignore these modules altogether. The four images I've tried and the distrobox.ini configuration:

[bluebuild]
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:latest-alpine
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:latest
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:main-alpine
image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:main
home="~/distrobox/bluebuild"
additional_packages=""
init=false
nvidia=false
pull=true
root=false
replace=true
start_now=false
exported_apps=""
exported_bins="/usr/bin/bluebuild"

[bluebuild]
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:latest-alpine
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:latest
#image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:main-alpine
image=ghcr.io/blue-build/cli:main
home="~/distrobox/bluebuild"
additional_packages=""
init=false
nvidia=false
pull=true
root=false
replace=true
start_now=false
exported_apps=""
exported_bins="/usr/bin/bluebuild"

Solution:

it's about the order of your $PATH, i add .local/bin/ in my config.fish so it takes precedence

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xyny•2mo ago

:main should be it the github action uses :main with the unstable cli option it's from the main branch did you re-assemble the distrobox with every change? this is not related to ublue main images

Sukarn•2mo ago

Thanks @xyny . I did a bit of digging using bluebuild --version inside and outside the distrobox, and they reported different versions. Using whereis bluebuild on the host showed that for some reason, I have /usr/bin/bluebuild built into the host os, even though I don't see any instructions in my build recipes, files and scripts to install bluebuild to the host image. Not sure where and how this snuck in. As a result, /usr/bin/bluebuild has been taking precedence over ~/.local/bin/bluebuild from the distrobox. Now that I know I have to explicitly call ~/.local/bin/bluebuild I just have to figure out the next step: dealing with the docker socket error:

ERROR: failed to initialize builder bluebuild (bluebuild0): Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

I'm trying to figure that one out now.

xyny•2mo ago

/usr/bin/bluebuild is added to the containerfile by CLI for your convenience i was not aware of the precedence thing

Sukarn•2mo ago

Seems to be progressing with --build-driver podman now.

Solution

xyny•2mo ago

it's about the order of your $PATH, i add .local/bin/ in my config.fish so it takes precedence

Sukarn•2mo ago

Depends on the way $PATH is set for the running user. Mine is set to add ~/.local/bin at the end of the pre-existing $PATH. echo $PATH for this running user shows: /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/var/home/sukarn/.local/bin:/var/home/sukarn/.local/bin So /usr/local/bin was taking precedence. Fixing this now! Thanks for the help, @xyny !

xyny•2mo ago

yeah, but i'm not totally sure if the distrobox images are distrobox-ready yet maybe you copied the binary out of them into .local or what?

Sukarn•2mo ago

Well, the build is progressing. This is for test-purposes only. I exported the /usr/bin/bluebuild from the distrobox. Manual method: 1. distrobox-enter bluebuild 2. distrobox-export --bin /usr/bin/bluebuild Mine is doing it automatically using distrobox-assemble (using the distrobox.ini file above). I run the command distrobox-assemble create --file ~/path/to/distrobox.ini --name bluebuild and it destroys the previous one, creates the new distrobox, and then exports the bin to ~/.local/bin/bluebuild I'm using it to run tree /tmp in the recipe so that I can figure out what files exist and their names and directory structure after using the copy function, so that I then install the right .rpm in the recipe.

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What is the `main` image in cli module documentation?