1:19 p.m.
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