[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] tini: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:11:11 -0700, Christian Stewart wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:55 PM Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > What does "Docker now statically links to Tiny internally" mean ?  
> 
> I suppose the commit note is not clear. I am basically saying that we
> do not need to statically link Tini, unlike previous revisions of this
> commit. The intent of this package is no longer to satisfy the
> docker-init requirement, but instead to just provide the "tini" binary
> in the target environment, dynamically linked or otherwise.

Why did the requirement change ?

> According to https://github.com/krallin/tini - NOTE: If you are using
> Docker 1.13 or greater, Tini is included in Docker itself. This
> includes all versions of Docker CE. To enable Tini, just pass the
> --init flag to docker run.

If Tini is included in Docker itself, why do we need a package for it ?

Thomas
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