[Podman] Building Podman 2.x using Spack for RHEL 7

Hello. I learned during the community meeting on Oct 6th that Podman in RHEL 7 is unfortunately frozen at 1.6.4. Interest in Podman 2.x for RHEL 7 has caused some of our developers to ask if an effort for building Podman and associated tools (skopeo, buildah, networking, etc) with Spack could be explored. https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/spack-hpc-package-manager https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/2115 https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_packaging.html Certainly the best option is to use RHEL distributed RPM packages, but exploring a near term option for RHEL 7 is also important to us. Are all the necessary pieces available from https://github.com/containers/podman ? If multiple git repos are required, we want to make sure to include them all. Are there any other special instructions or areas to use caution? Thanks. -James Ault aultj9(a)yahoo.com