[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/9] upgrade docker-engine and associated components

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> writes:

 > Hi Peter,
 > Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:
 >> >  - runc to 9f9c96235cc97674e935002fc3d78361b696a69e
 >> >  - docker-containerd to v1.0.2
 >> >  - docker-engine to v2018.03.0-ce-rc1

 >> 
 >> I am far from a docker expert, but isn't this an 'edge' release? Given
 >> the Buildroot release schedule, wouldn't it make more sense to use the
 >> 'stable' releases with a similar quarterly support/release schedule?

 > Yes, it's intended to be merged into "next" for release not in Buildroot
 > 2018.02 but later. I thought I had mentioned that in the cover letter,
 > but I guess that was in another revision, lost somewhere months ago.

 > The reason is because from our testing on various devices with varying
 > container workloads, the only two stable versions (with no critical
 > bugs) of Docker that we have been able to find were early 2017 or 2018.03-rc1.

That sounds pretty horrible :/


 > 2018.03-rc1 will be released as a full release soon as 2018.02 was
 > completely unusable due to a "container already exists" error when
 > trying to start a container.

 > If you would like me to make another series based around 17.12.1-ce that
 > was just released, I would be happy to do so.

Well, only if it actually works. But if you think there will be a new
(working) stable release before our next release (E.G. by April) then
I'm also fine with going with this 2018.03 version.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard