[RFC] DistGit Container Image namespacing for Layered Image Build Service

[Petr Spacek]

On 12.11.2015 21:01, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Miller
> <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> If we were to go with the former rather than the latter, we would need
>> to find a way to "namespace" container images so they can be
>> determined as different. I've thought about this a lot and I worry
>> about defining a namespace by some alphanumberic sequence because I
>> just know that at some point there will end up being a piece of
>> software in the ecosystem that we want to package as a rpm that will
>> share this pattern and result in problematic filtering. We could
>> accept that risk and simply say "this sequence is a reserved word" or
>> use a special character as the leading character in a DistGit
>> repository name to signify that it is a container.
> 
> git repositories normally use '/' to separate namespaces, so i'd propose
> 
> $ fedpkg clone containers/cockpit
> 
> and maybe add support for
> 
> $ fedpkg clone srpms/cockpit
> 
> at the same time.
> 
> This has the added benefit that cgit will automatically filter docker
> reposistories when you visit, e.g,
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/containers/

+1, sounds reasonable.

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