git not installed on host

[cskiraly]

I was trying to use a docker-compose.yml which builds directly from git, but git seems not to be installed in the base image.

[...]
  agile-dbus:
    image: agileiot/agile-dbus-armv7l
    # build: apps/agile-dbus
    build: https://github.com/Agile-IoT/agile-dbus.git
[...]

bash-3.2$ AGILE_MODE=remote ./agile compose build
Building agile-dbus
ERROR: Error trying to use git: exec: "git": executable file not found in $PATH ()

I'm not sure will actually use this feature, but I think it would be nice to support in resinOS. @curcuz , @craig-mulligan, if I'm not missing something, can you propagate this upstream?

[craigmulligan]

@cskiraly, all our images with buildpack-deps will have git.(https://docs.resin.io/runtime/resin-base-images/) So probably best to just swap out the alpine image of agile-dbus for debian or install it ourselves.

[cskiraly]

@craig-mulligan, sorry, I was writing base image but I was thinking of the resinOS host file system. I was referring to git use as documented in https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#/build : "Either a path to a directory containing a Dockerfile, or a url to a git repository."

I think you would need git to be installed on the host to make this docker-compose feature work.

[craigmulligan]

Ah I see what you mean. Hmm interesting I guess for a resinOS dev image it'd make sense to have git available for that feature. You can just clone the repo locally in /apps, does that work in the meantime or is it blocking?

[cskiraly]

local path works fine. Having the possibility to have http links would be still nice (both for us and for resinOS in general), but it can wait. Can you push it on resinOS? I was looking into repos but it wasn't clear to me where should I open the issue. Just ref me or this issue, so that I can follow, thanks!

[craigmulligan]

Sure see here: https://github.com/resin-os/resinos/issues/200 all resinOS issues are made on that repo.

[craigmulligan]

Closing as this seems out of scope for now.