Slightly related... Such a build could in theory be easily turned into a docker image too using the relatively new Jib tool from Google:
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/introducing-jib-build-java-docker-images-better.html On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Mike Percy <mpe...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:34 PM Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > In many cases, builds done on earlier systems are runnable on newer > > systems. For example, el6 builds tend to run fine on el7 and ubuntu 14 in > > my experience. If you also bundle the libssl and libcrypto, it seems that > > an el6 build can also run on Ubuntu 16. So, assuming we could package > more > > than one binary in the artifact, packaging the shared libraries and > setting > > RPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly is probably a reasonable option to > run > > across most common Linux variants. > > > Cool idea. We could do a fully dynamic build, ship all the dynamic deps > with hacked rpaths, and likely save some space in the tarball along the > way. It's worth trying out. > > Mike >
