It should have a mvn profile like rpm and the go cli IMO. The README in the
master project describes these.

Best
Alex

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, 22:51 Geoff Macartney <geoff.macart...@gmail.com wrote:

> We added this in https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-dist/pull/118, but I
> do
> dislike having to have Docker to build Brooklyn.  IMHO anyone should be
> able to build and use Brooklyn without knowing anything about Docker. Could
> we remove the image build from the mvn install and have a separate shell
> script that you would run manually to build the image? And yes it should
> use the karaf distro, didn't realise it doesn't.
>
> Geoff
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 16:58 Richard Downer <rich...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > The Apache Brooklyn build depends on having a working Docker instance.
> This
> > I did not know.
> >
> > The build failure happens in the `brooklyn-dist` project, which
> > incorporates into execution `dockerfile-maven-plugin` which invokes
> Docker
> > during the build phase. If Docker is not running, it tries to connect to
> a
> > non-existent UNIX socket and the build fails.
> >
> > This presents a few discussion points...
> >
> > What exactly is it building? There's a Dockerfile there and it seems that
> > it builds an image which contains the Brooklyn distribution and starts
> > Brooklyn. I don't know much about Docker, what happens to that image? Is
> it
> > local to my computer?
> >
> > Is it necessary to have the build depend on Docker? To me this seems
> > unreasonable. Docker has a large footprint and I don't think it's
> > reasonable to require it for a normal, local build of Brooklyn.
> >
> > We're not releasing Docker images. Should we be? Should we not be? Is it
> > even possible for us to do that in Apache?
> >
> > Why haven't I seen this before? The changes to add this to brooklyn-dist
> > were made in 2017. I've performed release builds on clean EC2 instances
> and
> > never seen this. Was this dormant, and has something changed which has
> > kicked this into life?
> >
> > brooklyn-dist is obsolete now. If the Docker build is still something
> > important, then firstly it needs moved to another project (hopefully one
> > exclusive to that task) and secondly it needs to use the Karaf
> > distribution.
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>

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