On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:22, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/2/20 4:52 AM, Code Zombie wrote:
> Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one?
The good news is that it's reasonably straightforward to install an
unpackaged distribution, you just need a tarball of the distribution.
And lots of those are available for use with podman (or docker). For
example I can pull the CentOS 7 container image and then save that to an
archive:
podman pull centos:7
podman save centos:7 -o centos7.tar
Inside "centos7.tar" is another tar archive, which is the base layer for
the centos:7 image. Copy centos7.tar to your Windows system, and
extract it there. Now you can import that and then run it:
wsl --import centos7 c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Packages\Centos7
centos7\*.tar
wsl -d centos7
You'll usually want to set a registry key to change the default user...
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss\{
assigned GUID })
It's not click and run by any means, but it's feasible.
The bad news, though, is that current versions of rpm (and dnf) won't
work under WSL if you're on a Windows version older than 2004, so you
might be stuck with CentOS 7 if you're on an employer-managed laptop
that is still running an older release of Windows (as I am, during the
work day):
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3939
I tried with Fedora rawhide (which already uses SQLite for the rpm
database) and it works fine, but:
- Instead of saving the image, a container must be exported:
$ podman run --name Fedora fedora:rawhide
$ podman export Fedora -o fedora.tar
- /etc/resolv.conf must be deleted, so that WSL creates its own one
and there's Internet access.
- You may want to delete tsflags=nodocs from /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
- I found that [1] does a pretty good job replacing /usr/bin/systemctl
[1]
https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement
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Iñaki Úcar