[CentOS-devel] official centos-7 docker image are wrong

So, the easy fix for this (and one that aligns with a previous rh
bugzilla ticket) is to remove iputils from the base container.

With this package removed, installing it will allow the package to
function as expected. The problem is one of socializing the removal of
the package from the base container. This has traditionally bitten us
whenever we've pruned things from the container.

On 02/10/2016 04:15 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> according to this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142311
> rh silently replace iputils with the same version with a fixed capabilities.
> unfortunately official base centos-7 (ie. latest 7.2) docker images are
> build with the wrong version, so these images should have to be rebuild
> with the proper version.
> currently in the official centos7 docker images:
> -------------------------------------
> # rpm -qi iputils
> Name        : iputils
> Version     : 20121221
> Release     : 7.el7
> Architecture: x86_64
> Install Date: Wed 23 Dec 2015 06:09:24 PM UTC
> Group       : System Environment/Daemons
> Size        : 368577
> License     : BSD and GPLv2+
> Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 25 Nov 2015 02:43:41 PM UTC, Key ID
> 24c6a8a7f4a80eb5
> Source RPM  : iputils-20121221-7.el7.src.rpm
> Build Date  : Fri 20 Nov 2015 07:12:19 PM UTC
> Build Host  : worker1.bsys.centos.org
> Relocations : (not relocatable)
> Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
> Vendor      : CentOS
> URL         : http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
> Summary     : Network monitoring tools including ping
> Description :
> The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
> including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
> ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
> the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
> -------------------------------------
> 
> while in the centos repo:
> -------------------------------------
> # rpm -qi iputils
> Name        : iputils
> Version     : 20121221
> Release     : 7.el7
> Architecture: x86_64
> Install Date: Tue 15 Dec 2015 03:15:22 PM CET
> Group       : System Environment/Daemons
> Size        : 368577
> License     : BSD and GPLv2+
> Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 25 Nov 2015 03:43:41 PM CET, Key ID
> 24c6a8a7f4a80eb5
> Source RPM  : iputils-20121221-7.el7.src.rpm
> Build Date  : Fri 20 Nov 2015 08:12:19 PM CET
> Build Host  : worker1.bsys.centos.org
> Relocations : (not relocatable)
> Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
> Vendor      : CentOS
> URL         : http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
> Summary     : Network monitoring tools including ping
> Description :
> The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
> including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
> ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
> the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
> -------------------------------------
> imho it's a bug! without it ping not working from any docker container
> based on centos7.
> 

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