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@yahoo.com