Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] scripts: introduce containerized builds

[Guillaume Tucker]

Hi Nicolas,

On 20/01/2026 2:54 pm, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> Out-of-source builds do not work on my system with podman.  If this is
> expected, I think it would be great to mention that somewhere in the
> documentation.

Yes, as discussed with Nathan.  So here's the list of potential
improvements gathered so far:

* automatically pick Podman first, Docker second
* explicitly mention docker.io registry in examples
* mention TuxMake available images more explicitly in the docs
* mention that out-of-tree builds aren't supported yet
* distinguish true Docker from Docker-compatible Podman
* add support for out-of-tree output build directory
* add option for mounting source tree from arbitrary path
  (needed for nested containers e.g. Docker-in-Docker)
* detect when Docker has namespace support enabled and document
* add user config file with default images and runtime etc.

Then beyond that we could consider other container runtimes such as
containerd, lxc, runc or whatever works in practice.

> Nevertheless, thanks a lot!  I expect me to use that a lot in the
> future!
>
> For the whole patch set:
> Tested-by: Nicolas Schier<nsc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Schier<nsc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!  Let's hope others will find it useful too.

Cheers,
Guillaume