split runc rpm (for co-installing Docker and Podman)

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#327 opened on Dec 8, 2020 19 comments 24 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: centos, docker
Domain: build-system, devops, infrastructure

Research direction

Reproduce the dependency conflict on CentOS 8.3 using the Docker and Podman installation commands shown in the issue. Inspect the RPM packaging and dependency metadata for containerd.io and runc; done means the official Docker and Podman RPMs can be installed together without the runc conflict.

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Description

Currently, Docker and Podman cannot be installed together on CentOS 8.3 with their official RPMs:

# curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | CHANNEL=test sh
# rpm -qa docker* containerd* | sort
containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64
docker-ce-20.10.0-2.2.rc2.el8.x86_64
docker-ce-cli-20.10.0-2.2.rc2.el8.x86_64
docker-ce-rootless-extras-20.10.0-2.2.rc2.el8.x86_64
# dnf install -y podman
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:43 ago on Tue Dec  8 10:46:14 2020.
Error: 
 Problem: problem with installed package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - installed package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.3.7-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.3.7-3.1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.3.9-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.3.9-3.1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.1-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.1-3.1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.el8.x86_64 conflicts with runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package containerd.io-1.4.3-3.el8.x86_64 obsoletes runc provided by runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64
  - package podman-2.0.5-5.module_el8.3.0+512+b3b58dca.x86_64 requires runc >= 1.0.0-57, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - package runc-1.0.0-64.rc10.module_el8.3.0+479+69e2ae26.x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Would it be possible to split runc rpm from containerd.io rpm, to resolve the dependency conflict above?

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