On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 05:39:18PM -0600, Leo Sandoval via Grub-devel wrote:
> Containers bring the ability to have ready-to-use environments
> isolated completely from the build environment. Once users manually
> build it, they can launch the desired container, jump into it and have
> a setup ready for development. On the other hand, if users prefer to
> use bare metal instead of a containerized environment, it is still
> useful to have a the full list of the required packages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Sandoval <[email protected]>
> ---
> INSTALL | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> container/Containerfile | 16 ++++
> container/check.sh | 18 +++++
> 3 files changed, 192 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 container/Containerfile
> create mode 100644 container/check.sh
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index 22b68cb6c7..305e0ae29a 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ To use the gdb_grub GDB script you'll need:
> * GNU Debugger > 7, built with python support (gdb package)
> * Python >= 3.5 (python3 package)
>
> +To easier the task of package installation, the Container section list
s/easier/ease/
> +the above packages per distribution (see the command line examples, the
> +--build-arg PKGS argument on the podman build command). In case the
> installation
> +of these packages is not possible on your host, one can rely on containers
> which
> +are ready-to-use container images for GRUB development. For more informacion
> see
> +Container section.
> +
> Configuring the GRUB
> ====================
>
> @@ -358,3 +365,154 @@ operates.
> `--version'
> Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
> script, and exit.
> +
> +Container
> +=========
> +
> +Containers bring the ability to have ready-to-use environments isolated
> completely
> +from the build environment. Once users manually build it, they can launch
> the desired
> +container, jump into it and have a setup ready for development. On the other
> hand, if users
> +prefer to use bare metal instead of a containerized environment, it is still
> useful to have a
> +the full list of the required packages.
> +
> +Assuming your build OS support containers, e.g. all Linux distros, install
> 'podman' on
> +your favorite distro, move into the container folder then build a specific
> distro image with
I think you should mention here that the command below is for Fedora.
> +$ cd container
> +$ podman build \
> + --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=fedora \
> + --build-arg PKG_MANAGER=dnf \
> + --build-arg PKGS="\
> + attr \
> + autoconf \
> + automake \
> + autopoint \
> + bison \
> + btrfs-progs \
> + cpio \
> + cryptsetup \
> + dosfstools \
> + e2fsprogs \
> + edk2-ovmf \
> + edk2-ovmf-ia32 \
> + erofs-utils \
> + exfatprogs \
> + f2fs-tools \
> + flex \
> + gawk \
> + genromfs \
> + gettext \
> + git \
> + hfsplus-tools \
> + jfsutils \
> + libtool \
> + lzop \
> + make \
> + mtools \
> + nilfs-utils \
> + ntfsprogs \
> + parted \
> + patch \
> + pkg-config \
> + python3 \
> + qemu-system-arm \
> + qemu-system-aarch64 \
> + qemu-system-riscv \
> + qemu-system-x86 \
> + rsync \
Please fix indention here.
> + squashfs-tools \
> + swtpm-tools \
> + texinfo \
> + texinfo-tex \
Ditto.
> + texlive \
> + tpm2-tools \
> + udftools \
> + unifont \
> + unifont-fonts \
> + which \
> + words \
> + xfsprogs \
> + xorriso \
> + zfs-fuse" \
> + -t fedora-grub .
> +
> +or in case you prefer Debian
> +
> +$ cd container
> +$ podman build \
> + --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=debian \
> + --build-arg PKG_MANAGER=apt \
> + --build-arg PKGS="\
> + attr \
> + autoconf \
> + automake \
> + autopoint \
> + bison \
> + btrfs-progs \
> + cpio \
> + cryptsetup \
> + dosfstools \
> + e2fsprogs \
> + erofs-utils \
> + exfatprogs \
> + f2fs-tools \
> + flex \
> + gawk \
> + genromfs \
> + gettext \
> + git \
> + hfsplus \
> + jfsutils \
> + libtool \
> + lzop \
> + make \
> + mtools \
> + nilfs-tools \
> + ntfs-3g \
> + ovmf \
> + ovmf-ia32 \
> + parted \
> + patch \
> + pkg-config \
> + python3 \
> + qemu-efi-aarch64 \
> + qemu-efi-arm \
> + qemu-system \
> + rsync \
Ditto.
> + squashfs-tools \
> + swtpm-tools \
> + texinfo \
> + texlive \
> + tpm2-tools \
> + udftools \
> + unifont \
> + wamerican \
> + which \
> + xfonts-unifont \
> + xfsprogs \
> + xorriso \
> + zfs-fuse" \
It seems to me the list of packages for Debian is not consistent with
what is currently in the INSTALL file. Is it? Anyway, I think both
should be checked and Fedora and Debian users should be pointed from
relevant section to the commands building relevant containers and easy
to get list of packages.
> + -t debian-grub .
> +
> +once built, you can run/launch any of the aboven
> +
> +$ podman run -it fedora-grub
> +
> +or
> +
> +$ podman run -it debian-grub
> +
> +and execute the standard build/test commands inside it, e.g
> +
> + # ./linguas.sh
> + # ./bootstrap
> + # ./configure
> + # make
> + # make html
> + # make pdf
> + # make check
> +
> +The above commands are collected in a single script inside the container
> called 'check.sh'
> +and can be useful as sanity check for testing latest upstream changes with
> +
> +$ podman run fedora-grub /grub/check.sh
> diff --git a/container/Containerfile b/container/Containerfile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..c74f6270c9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/container/Containerfile
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +ARG BASE_IMAGE
> +FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
> +
> +ARG PKG_MANAGER
> +ARG PKGS
> +ARG GIT_CLONE_DEPTH=1
> +ARG GRUB_REPO=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grub.git
> +ARG GRUB_DIR=/grub
> +
> +RUN $PKG_MANAGER update -y && $PKG_MANAGER install -y ${PKGS}
> +RUN git clone --depth ${GIT_CLONE_DEPTH} ${GRUB_REPO} ${GRUB_DIR}
> +
> +WORKDIR ${GRUB_DIR}
> +
> +COPY check.sh .
> +RUN chmod +x check.sh
> diff --git a/container/check.sh b/container/check.sh
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..aa3eebcdd5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/container/check.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +#! /bin/sh
> +
> +set -e
> +set -x
#!/bin/sh -ex
... and you are done
> +
> +cd /grub
This will not work on baremetal machine...
> +./linguas.sh
> +./bootstrap
> +./configure
> +make
> +make html
> +make pdf
> +make check || true
> +
> +if [ -f test-suite.log ]; then
> + cat test-suite.log
> +fi
Daniel
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