bazel-contrib/rules_distroless

Fails to natively decompress xz indices on macOS ("unable to download package index")

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#65 opened on Jul 18, 2024

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Package index fetching logic depends on the xz command to decompress Packages.xz (see https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/rules_distroless/blob/9da4ee521ab077fbd37744cb1acdad9e0f44b349/apt/private/package_index.bzl#L8)

macOS doesn't natively have an xz command, the native way to decompress xz files is surprisingly gzip -d Packages.xz (gzip in macOS is a non-standard Apple variant).

It's fairly easy to workaround by installing xz (brew install xz) so the xz command works. Ideally rules_distroless should use the native macOS command automatically but documenting this macOS dependency in the README would be helpful too.

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