Re: [PATCH 0/4] tests/docker: improve detection of docker/podman

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

Ping: any thoughts on this series of CI improvements ?

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 01:01:41PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> This improves integration such that tests/docker/Makefile.include will
> correctly honour the exact command detected by docker.py's probing
> logic. Currently the probe command gets stripped down to just a bare
> 'podman' or 'docker' command name. This means while commands run via
> 'docker.py' would use 'sudo -n docker', commands run directly from
> Makefile.include would only use 'docker'.
> 
> This series fixes that so that 'docker.py probe' correctly reports the
> full argv, and configure honours that argv untouched.
> 
> With that fixed, we can then also add support for 'podman --remote'
> and 'podman-remote', which allow use of podman when already inside
> podman which is the scenario for my development environment that is
> using 'toolbox'.
> 
> Finally this also improves CI by ensuring that stdout from docker is
> not thrown away, so we can have a chance of diagnosing build failures
> from CI.
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé (4):
>   tests/docker: improve handling of docker probes
>   tests/docker: allow display of docker output
>   gitlab: ensure docker output is always displayed in CI
>   tests/docker: add support for podman remote access
> 
>  .gitlab-ci.d/base.yml         |  3 +++
>  configure                     | 19 +++++++------------
>  tests/docker/Makefile.include | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  tests/docker/docker.py        | 17 +++++++----------
>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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