These commands are super boring standard Docker commands,
so this probably isn't helpful for anyone who is familiar
with building Docker images... but I had to consult docs
to work out the right commands again today, so they'd help me.
Provision was failing at tools/setup/postgres-init-dev-db
with this in the log:
Sep 20 02:27:01 + sudo -i -u postgres psql ''
[sudo] password for circleci:
The issue is that the old version of this line (from Circle upstream)
only lets the `circleci` user sudo to root -- not to other users, or
not directly anyway -- because sudoers syntax is complicated. Fix it,
after studying `man sudoers`.
This is only an optimization -- if this list is missing anything,
we'll get to it in `provision` in the actual build. That's important,
because we want an existing image to work fine for testing new
versions of our codebase, including changes that may install more
packages in `provision`.
What this does accomplish is keeping provision's `apt-get install`
fast, by leaving it very little work to do.
The list comes from looking at the APT output during provision in an
actual run without this step, and leaving out two packages which
aren't available at this stage, because we get them from PPAs:
postgresql-9.3-pgroonga and postgresql-9.3-tsearch-extras.
Install `jq` with APT -- that's a lot simpler to read than this
explicit download.
And coalesce several commands, following Docker upstream's
recommendation and avoiding unnecessary overhead.
This is nearly the same as Circle's version, linked in the comment.
I've
* changed the FROM line to get Ubuntu,
* added a couple of distro packages to compensate, and
* revised the comments.
Greg Price