elementary/docker

Docker containers of elementary OS environments and related tools primarily used in Travis Continuous Integration Automated Testing

Official Elementary OS Docker Images

These images are meant to ease testing applications build for elementary os. They are based on the same Ubuntu base as the desktop releases with the addition of the tools recommended by the development SDK.

For an example on how to use this with Github actions see the config for our Dock.

Image Variants

ghcr.io/elementary/docker:stable: This defaults to the latest stable elementary release.

ghcr.io/elementary/docker:unstable: This defaults to the latest unstable elementary release.

ghcr.io/elementary/docker:<release>-stable and ghcr.io/elementary/docker:<release>-unstable: These tags can be used to specify an exact version of elementary. For example, for a horus image: ghcr.io/elementary/docker:horus-stable

Example usage

# run the latest stable release in an interactive shell!
docker run -it ghcr.io/elementary/docker bash -l

docker's Issues

Docker hub tags

Since #32 was merged the tags on docker hub have not been updated. I've opened #41 to update the readme here, but that does not change anything for people using the hub directly.

Should the description there be updated to point users to github and/or remove the tags to make it painfully obvious.
Removing the tags probably will break some builds, as some tags are still pulled. At time of writing latest was last pulled only 3 hours ago.

not much themes to choose from

hope we get a more themes in the future , thanks

How i can run the image, and where are the ip of the host?

Problem

I install the image on docker over photon os, but i dont really know how to start it up with gui.

Proposal

More explain on the project on how to work.

Prior Art (Optional)

No response

Change `unstable` to be elementary next on Focal

As we are slowly moving to Ubuntu Focal, it would be great to have some CI using this version (esp. for projects using mutter and E-D-S)

Hera (elementaryOS 5.1) release on Docker Hub

I just saw that elementaryOS is released as Docker images as well as plain OS (.iso downloadable on elementary.io). And this is great news as I'm discovering this distribution and would be happy to give it a try in a virtualized environment.

Still, on the Docker Hub, I am not sure whether or not there is the latest stable release called Hera.

If not, could it be possible to publish one or at least publish the procedure to make one myself? I am not familiar with making base images (from scratch) but I am ready to try.

Thanks!

Include flatpak builder

Problem

Currently we have to install flatpak builder in every CI which we want to add flatpak to

Proposal

pre-install flatpak builder

Prior Art

docker.io/bilelmoussaoui/flatpak-github-actions

Use US archive mirror

Should speed up Travis

Create testing images for easier travis tests

Having a travis file like this sucks. We should have a loki-travis image that contains a script to install the packages and run the build system. That way we can update tests without having to update all of the repositories. Plus, it cleans up the travis file quite a bit.

language: generic

services:
 - docker

env:
 - DEPENDENCY_PACKAGES="appstream cmake desktop-file-utils libcanberra-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgranite-dev valac"

install:
 - docker pull elementary/docker:loki
 - docker run -v "$PWD":/tmp/build-dir elementary/docker:loki /bin/sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get -y install $DEPENDENCY_PACKAGES && cd /tmp/build-dir && cmake . && env CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=true make all test"
 - docker pull elementary/docker:loki-unstable
 - docker run -v "$PWD":/tmp/build-dir elementary/docker:loki-unstable /bin/sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get -y install $DEPENDENCY_PACKAGES && cd /tmp/build-dir && cmake . && env CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=true make all test"

script:
 - echo BUILDS PASSED

Ultimately we should be able to do something like this:

language: generic

services:
 - docker

env:
 - TRAVIS_PACKAGES="libcanberra-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgranite-dev valac"

before_install:
 - env | grep "^TRAVIS" > .env

install:
 - docker pull elementary/docker:loki-travis
 - docker pull elementary/docker:loki-unstable-travis

script:
 - docker run --env-file .env -v "$PWD":/tmp/travis elementary/docker:loki-travis
 - docker run --env-file .env -v "$PWD":/tmp/travis elementary/docker:loki-unstable-travis

Builds fail for apps that use GResource

What Happened?

Looks to be the same as moby/moby#43595

Steps to Reproduce

run a CI build with an app that uses GResource

Expected Behavior

moby/moby#42681

OS Version

7.x (Early Access)

Software Version

Compiled from git

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

Use GitHub Container Registry

Docker Hub is removing the Free Organizations plan, as we are already deeply using GitHub for everything it would make sense to use GitHub Container Registry

Use https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-container-registry

GitHub Publish Action Disabled

What Happened?

The "Publish" action has disabled itself due to inactivity, so we don't have up to date docker images.

I don't have enough rights to re-enable, and this is causing the Wingpanel GTK4 CI to fail due to mismatched Mutter versions in the Docker image.

Steps to Reproduce

Look at actions.

Expected Behavior

Docker images build regularly

OS Version

Other Linux

Software Version

Compiled from git

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response