src-cli doesn't work with podman

[lookcrabs]

Description

When trying to run src-cli I get an obtuse error:

$ SRC_ENDPOINT="https://sourcegraph.host" SRC_ACCESS_TOKEN="XYXYXYXYXYXYXYXY" src batch preview -v -f replace-bugs.batch.yaml 

❌ Error:
   exit status 125
   
💡 The troubleshooting documentation can help to narrow down the cause of the errors:
   https://docs.sourcegraph.com/batch_changes/references/troubleshooting

After some poking around it looks like the src-cli does docker info --format '{{ .NCPU }}' underneath link. I think podman throws the number of cpus in docker info --format '{{ .Host.CPUs }}'.

When running this command manually I get exit status 125 which makes me think this is the issue but not sure.

using src-cli version 3.43.2 and sourcegraph 3.43.2

[malomarrec]

Hi - many thanks for your request. This helps us know what will be useful to work on next, so really appreciate your time!

This is not on our short-term roadmap, but we have ongoing conversations about generalizing what runtime we support in the future. I'll make sure this is more clearly documented though.

[malomarrec]

Moving this to the backlog for now. Action item: document and point to this issue.

[lomkju]

I'm getting the error below when running when using podman. Hope to see more support for podman soon. For now using docker engine seems to work fine.

Machine Specs

❯ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType SPHardwareDataType

Software:
      System Version: macOS 12.6 (21G115)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 21.6.0

Hardware:
      Model Name: MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,3
      Chip: Apple M1 Pro
      Total Number of Cores: 10 (8 performance and 2 efficiency)
      Memory: 32 GB
      System Firmware Version: 7459.141.1
      OS Loader Version: 7459.141.1
      
❯ podman version      
Client:       Podman Engine
Version:      4.2.1
API Version:  4.2.1
Go Version:   go1.18.6
Built:        Wed Sep  7 04:16:02 2022
OS/Arch:      darwin/arm64

Server:       Podman Engine
Version:      4.2.1
API Version:  4.2.1
Go Version:   go1.18.5
Built:        Thu Sep  8 04:59:25 2022
OS/Arch:      linux/arm64

❯ src version                  
Current version: 4.0.1
Recommended version: 4.0.1 or later

SourceGraph Error

2022-10-07T14:54:54.360138+09:00 stderr | invalid argument "type=bind,source=/tmp/1555766738,target=,ro" for "--mount" flag: target is required
2022-10-07T14:54:54.360208+09:00 stderr | See 'docker run --help'.
2022-10-07T14:54:54.360525+09:00 [Step 1] took 19ms; error running Docker container: exit status 125

[imranh2]

Building on what @lookcrabs said I hacked in podman support for batches at https://github.com/imranh2/src-cli/commit/55d862cb98052bcde799530bba9d371502844619

You can clone my branch and just run go build ./cmd/src and you'll be left with ./src that you can use.

I also have docker aliased to podman behind the scenes but a symlink in your path from podman to docker would work too.