Hi everyone,
The moby-engine package [1] (also known as Docker) has been orphaned in Fedora and is looking for a new maintainer. The waiting period will soon be over and the package will be retired if nobody steps in.
This means that the package will be unavailable starting with the next release of Fedora (Fedora 38) that should happen in approximately 5 to 6 months.
If you are using this package and are interested in helping maintaining it, now is the time to come forward!
This notably impacts Fedora CoreOS as we are including the moby-engine package by default to let users pick their container engine of choice whithout deciding for them in advance. We offer both major container engines by default in the image (podman and moby-engine).
If the moby-engine package ends up being retired for Fedora 38, then we will have to recommend to its users on Fedora CoreOS that they either switch to the official Docker packages [2] or move to containerd or podman when the rebase to Fedora 38 happens alongside the Fedora 38 release [3].
Note that we will likely not remove the containerd package from Fedora CoreOS as it is still maintained in Fedora and is currently used by Kubernetes distributions based on Fedora CoreOS (such as Typhoon for example).
See also the Fedora CoreOS tracker issue [4] for more details.
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/moby-engine
[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/
[3] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-38/f-38-key-tasks.html
[4] https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1291
Thanks,
Timothée Ravier for the Fedora CoreOS team
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2022-11-09/fedora_coreos…
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2022-11-09/fedora_coreos…
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2022-11-09/fedora_coreos…
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#fedora-meeting-1: fedora_coreos_meeting
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Meeting started by dustymabe at 16:35:25 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2022-11-09/fedora_coreos…
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Meeting summary
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* roll call (dustymabe, 16:35:29)
* Action items from last meeting (dustymabe, 16:38:40)
* there were no action items assigned last meeting! (dustymabe,
16:38:48)
* moby-engine (docker) maintenance in Fedora in question (dustymabe,
16:39:31)
* LINK: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1291
(dustymabe, 16:39:36)
* LINK:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_orphan_and_retired_pa…
(dustymabe, 16:48:04)
* LINK: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/ (travier,
16:49:51)
* ACTION: travier will send an email to coreos devel list and cc
fedora devel to try to find volunteers to help with moby-engine
maintainership in Fedora (dustymabe, 16:55:32)
* including audit in Fedora CoreOS (dustymabe, 16:55:42)
* LINK: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/461
(dustymabe, 16:55:50)
* we think we're in a better position to include auditd in FCOS now,
though there is still some work remaining. travier will enumerate
the remaining work and look to find volunteers. (dustymabe,
17:03:37)
* open floor (dustymabe, 17:12:36)
* We are hoping that the F37 release will happen next week. Please
test out the `next` stream today and report issues as that will be
coming to `testing` very soon. (dustymabe, 17:13:16)
Meeting ended at 17:27:19 UTC.
Action Items
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* travier will send an email to coreos devel list and cc fedora devel to
try to find volunteers to help with moby-engine maintainership in
Fedora
Action Items, by person
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* travier
* travier will send an email to coreos devel list and cc fedora devel
to try to find volunteers to help with moby-engine maintainership in
Fedora
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