Peter Mylemans

I have the same question about maintainability. Currently it is not part of the published package and should be consumed as a git source repository dependency with a prefix to...

Sounds to me that the deb repository rule should live in rules_docker. They already have rules to deal with installing packages into containers using package manager runtimes such as Apt....

@chanseokoh You are right, deb_repository handling is not specific to docker / containers. I was only suggesting it to live there, because it is the main use case today. But...

I've done most of the small changes (current version rules_pkg/deb_packages has issues with current version of bazel) and updates required here: https://github.com/petermylemans/rules_deb_packages. That coudl replace distroless' "python module" with an...

I used a regular shell script for now, but it implements the same idea. Another point of the list. :smile: Next up: I'll go for a draft PR to see...

@mattmoor @chanseokoh can you have a quick look at the draft PR to see if it's on track? The WORKSPACE file seems to grow somewhat, but I guess that is...

> > Deb downloads are a LOT faster and is more stable. I suspect that switching to the main debian CDN has something to do with that (as it is...

Mmm I'll have to look into this later this week. Thanks for the heads-up: I'll come back on this.

@joshuagl I can confirm that you are correct. :+1: Good catch and thanks for the investigation! The ftp behaviour was a bit surprising to me to be honest. I'll rework...

Work and life caught up with me in the last months, but I did have a look at the snapshot option. After going back and forth a bit, using snapshots...