package cache updates broken in glibc images

[mcandre]

Hi,

xbps fails to update the package cache in glibc images.

Dockerfile:

FROM ghcr.io/void-linux/void-glibc
RUN xbps-install -Syu

Trace:

0.688 ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata': Requested Range Not Satisfiable
0.695 [*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ...

In fact, all of the linux/amd64 platform glibc images have this problem, including -full and -busybox.

By comparison the ghcr.io/void-linux/void-musl image does not have this problem.

Using latest stable Docker Desktop on macOS Sequoia.

[classabbyamp]

works fine for me, in both a dockerfile and just running the container. this is probably an issue with you having a non-linux host

[mcandre]

Interesting behavior.

I can run plenty of other glibc distros via Docker, from any host. Including macOS, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS), Windows (native, WSL Ubuntu), and FreeBSD.

That's the hosts.

For the guests, I've run Alpine (musl), AntiX, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, OpenSUSE, CRUX, Arch, Cachy, FROM scratch (Go, static musl binaries).

I can run dozens of other distros in Docker no problem. I can largely mix and match hosts with guests, with the few exceptions being FreeBSD don't do dynamically linked musl guests, and non-BSD hosts don't do BSD guests. I can mix and match host ISA's with guest ISA's using buildx.

Only the glibc variants of Void present a problem.

There may be some leftover portion of the glibc image variants that hasn't containerized properly, following conventions by other images.

[mcandre]

Could Void depend on either an antique glibc version, or perhaps a bleeding edge glibc version?

I get the feeling that somehow, Void glibc deviates from the common glibc used by Docker, that works consistently well with other distro guests.

[classabbyamp]

void currently has glibc 2.41, nothing special

[mcandre]

Gotcha.

Yeah I dunno. But this breakage prevents the glibc edition of Void from appearing in my collection of package generating Docker images: https://github.com/mcandre/rockhopper/blob/main/INSTALL.md#rocklet-images