Build with packages?

[docker-library]

Build with packages?

[yosifkit]

We are currently building from source in order to attract upstream to maintain, but we are looking to make it easier to maintain so it could move to be built from the official packaging like postgres.

[tianon]

Interesting. http://nginx.org/en/docs/install.html makes it sound like using the packages is acceptable and that building from source is not necessarily preferred.

@yosifkit, didn't you have some other page you were reading where upstream mentioned that they specifically prefer that users build from source and only use the packages as necessary/fallback?

[yosifkit]

I recall something similar, but it was redis you are thinking of that had the "only build from source". I did not realize that they had packages; I only visited the download page and must have ignored the "pre-built" packages link at the bottom.

[yosifkit]

Fixed!

Nginx upstream will now be providing and maintaining the images nginxinc/docker-nginx.