Allow passing arbitrary extra arguments to repo2docker

yuvipanda commented 1 year ago

This adds an 'escape hatch', allowing the repo user to pass in additional arguments to repo2docker that we may not explicitly have options for.
Adds another option to force a specific version of repo2docker to be installed. Potentially helpful for reproducibiliy, but also helpful when we want to test an unreleased version of repo2docker
Install some base python packages required to build repo2docker from source - this is required if we want to install an unreleased version of repo2docker. This mostly brings in packages present in the build stage of the upstream repo2docker image that we use: https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/blob/main/Dockerfile

You can see an example of this in action in https://github.com/volcanocyber/VICTOR-notebook/pull/6, where we switch the base image to Ubuntu 22.04 by bringing in this PR: https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/pull/909

consideRatio commented 1 year ago

@GeorgianaElena what do you think about my suggested changes above?

yuvipanda commented 1 year ago

@consideRatio I've split out just the extra-args into https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker-action/pull/97, will come back to the rest here once that is merged

hamelsmu commented 1 year ago

Is this good to merge?

yuvipanda commented 1 year ago

@hamelsmu yep!

hamelsmu commented 1 year ago

Ok merging. I would like the features in this PR as well 🙇🏽 Thank you for doing this.

P.S. @yuvipanda we should catch up at JupyterCon if you are going to be there

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