including dockerfiles for MCnet tools?

[lukasheinrich]

Hi again,

would you like to build this into a general repository for HEP software tools? I have a couple of Dockerfiles for MCNet tools like Sherpa/Herwig/Madgraph/Rivet and other things like ROOT etc and I'd be happy to contribute.

Cheers, Lukas

[sbinet]

sure, send them in. or, rather, PR-them in :)

[lukasheinrich]

Hi,

so I have this repo:

https://github.com/lukasheinrich/hepsw-docker

would you like to follow a specific scheme on the dockerfiles?

[sbinet]

looks good.

what do you mean by "follow[ing] a specific scheme on the dockerfiles" ?

• a standard installation path for the binaries (inside the container) ?
• a standard installation location for the sources ?
• a standard location or naming scheme for the Dockerfiles inside the hepsw/docks repository ?

[lukasheinrich]

yeah possibly any of those. the existing one seem to come with a Dockerfile + a Makefile to do build and push. Also maybe could be a good idea to try to systematically build base layers. E.g I did try to use the slc-dev image for some stuff, but needed to compile gcc4.9 on top.

we can also just let it be free-form, just wanted to ask before I start putting in PRs. At least a naming scheme of directories sounds reasonable

[sbinet]

ok. let's start with indeed a Dockerfile + Makefile to streamline the build+upload process.

as for the layout of the directories holding these Dockerfiles, I would just start relatively flat (except if you want to put the mcnet related tools under, say, mctools or something.) we can still git mv stuff around.

for the sources being installed inside the container (if any), I would put them under /opt/hepsw/<some-name> and install the binaries+headers under /usr/{include,lib,bin}