Provide repositories for cri-dockerd packages

[matthewtorr-msft]

Hi 👋

I appreciate that you already build RPMs and DEBs and put them on the GitHub releases page. This is really helpful, thank you.

Please could you consider also making them available through package managers? I'm not asking for them in distro repos--but for example, kubectl can be yum-installed from a repo on packages.cloud.google.com.

[evol262]

Not likely to happen at the moment -- the amount of requisite steps (GPG signing, HTTP servers, repo files per distro, etc) isn't easily provided by github as-is. It's possible to make this work as a runaround through github.io, but need a little time to think about multi-distro, multi-arch structure.

[matthewtorr-msft]

Understood, thank you for letting me know!

[afbjorklund]

for example, kubectl can be yum-installed from a repo on packages.cloud.google.com.

The kubernetes packages (such as kubectl) have moved away from using Google:

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/pkgs-k8s-io-introduction/

cri-o have added their (static, pre-built) binaries to the kubernetes release OBS repo:

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/10/10/cri-o-community-package-infrastructure/

So those packages are now delivered from pkgs.k8s.io instead of packages.cloud.google.com

[talsh5528]

there is any option to support this FR? Is this package available through package managers?

[neersighted]

Packages for package managers are provided. What is being requested here is Linux repository infrastructure, which is a very different ask.

I am potentially interested in providing cri-dockerd packages via the infrastructure at download.docker.com; I will have to discuss the idea with several others and it might be predicated on other moves as well.