Since 4.4.0 cni-plugins is deprecated and shouldn't be the hard dependency anymore https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.4.0
Please confirm if it has been fixed or not.
I tested with podman-4.5.0, and it still defaults to using cni-plugins unless configured to use netavark in containers.conf like this: [network] network_backend = "netavark" If cni-plugins is not installed, podman will fail to run unless it is configured like above. The ebuild dependencies accept netavark and aardvark-dns as an alternative to cni-plugins, but it's still the user's responsibility to configure network_backend to use netavark.
So how do other distros list it as "optional" runtime dependency? Please take a look https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/podman/podman/fedora-38-updates.html https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/podman/ https://packages.debian.org/experimental/podman Thank you
Here it says for network_backend: > The default value is empty which means that it will automatically choose CNI or netavark. I'll have to investigate to see why I did not observe this automatic behavior.
This is where I found the network_backend documentation: https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/containers.conf.5.md
> CNI is being deprecated from Podman and support will be dropped at a future date. Netavark is now advised and is the default network backend for Podman. https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.4.0 I just want gentoo to have same behaviour as other guys, if they're having it as optional dep so should we. In my investigation Gentoo doesn't have "containers-common" (https://github.com/containers/common) package in tree, so it's not installed. That package provides default configs & documentation.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2941140a0760ca358eecc44391a79479f024a3de commit 2941140a0760ca358eecc44391a79479f024a3de Author: Rahil Bhimjiani <rahil3108@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-09-21 18:34:24 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-09-21 22:16:19 +0000 app-containers/containers-common: add 0.56.0 and live Common configs & docs for Containers eco-system (i.e. podman buildah skopeo...) Go realm, executables are all in compiled, static, tidy in one binary but docs & configs...OMG all over the place. Spent whole day coding all these (such noob, I know), but was fun & fulfilling. Once this is merged the foundation of podman-stack is built, so will proceed to update frontend packages of eco-system. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907805 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/904433 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914456 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907804 Signed-off-by: Rahil Bhimjiani <rahil3108@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/32976 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-containers/containers-common/Manifest | 1 + .../containers-common-0.56.0.ebuild | 76 ++ .../containers-common-9999.ebuild | 76 ++ .../containers-common/files/default.yaml | 28 + .../containers-common/files/fix-warnings.patch | 24 + app-containers/containers-common/files/mounts.conf | 3 + app-containers/containers-common/files/policy.json | 14 + .../containers-common/files/seccomp.json | 1051 ++++++++++++++++++++ app-containers/containers-common/metadata.xml | 17 + 9 files changed, 1290 insertions(+)
