From 99655fa37e26904741c760c8c627bafa0eb6dcea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joshua M. Boniface" Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:20:34 -0500 Subject: Add some more notes for Docker --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 65e6265..ff88f14 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -120,6 +120,14 @@ TODO - these have not yet been implemented. This ensures flexibility for container users to fetch the containers from whatever repository they choose. +* Seamless rebuilds: The root images are appended with the build date to keep them unique + + This ensures we can trigger rebuilds of the Docker containers arbitrarily, in response to things like base OS updates or packaging changes (e.g. a new version of the Intel compute engine for instance). + +* Based on Debian 12 ("Bookworm"): the latest base Debian release + + While possibly not as "up-to-date" as Ubuntu, this release is quite current and should cover all major compatibility issues we had with the old images based on Debian 11. + ### Portable Builds (Portable .NET, Linux, MacOS, Windows) * Single unified build: the entirety of the output package is built in one container from one Dockerfile, with the output archive type (`.tar.gz` or `.zip`) chosen based on the target. -- cgit