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Hello!
Loving my Mageia adventure so far! I am trying to setup an app called Darch, which is similar to Nix and the like, and I have hit a wall with the containerd package. From my research, it looks like the containerd package for Mageia is missing a bunch of files. The file that tipped me off was the containerd.service, which does not exist after the package install (this is all via DNF).
I went to compare the files listed for dnf vs Fedora's list, and it looks like ours is incomplete.

Mageia's
http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/26ccf2f34a9b4d1913b56154e716c0cd/files



Fedora's
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=28383156


I am not familiar with packaging in the least. I looked to try and install the rpm from Fedora, but the I can't resolve a dependency on runc. Other note: the Fedora version I am looking at is for Fedora 34, as it only requires the glibc versions that are most recent on Mageia.
Is there another way to get this installed? How would I notify a maintainer?

TIA!

charlatan wrote:and I have hit a wall with the containerd package. From my research, it looks like the containerd package for Mageia is missing a bunch of files. The file that tipped me off was the containerd.service, which does not exist after the package install (this is all via DNF).
I went to compare the files listed for dnf vs Fedora's list, and it looks like ours is incomplete.

Why do you think that's missing in particular ?

The fedora version is quite newer. And the systemd service is an addition from Fedora, not from upstream.
You can check it here and create it yourself if you need it: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cont ... rd.service

You could notify the maintainer via a bugreport, it would be a feature request to add the systemd service.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

Thanks for your reply. Clearly my inexperience has led my down the wrong direction when troubleshooting.
I have been trying to figure out how start containerd

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systemctl enable containerd

. I get the error

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containerd.service does not exist

. My searching all takes me down the docker road and containerd.service.

I am accustomed to an environment using runit, so forgive my ignorance. Maybe I should open an issue in another part of the forums... or hit the IRC channel to pursue this further?

charlatan wrote:Maybe I should open an issue in another part of the forums... or hit the IRC channel to pursue this further?

Not really no, this thread is sufficient. Altough it would have been helpful to include this information in the opening post.

As mentioned, you can create containerd.service yourself. As root

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systemctl edit --full --force containerd.service

and insert what e.g. Fedora has in their service file:

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[Unit]
Description=containerd container runtime
Documentation=https://containerd.io
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe overlay
ExecStart=/usr/bin/containerd
Delegate=yes
KillMode=process
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After saving this and exiting the editor you have a /etc/systemd/system/containerd.service

to show the status:

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systemctl status containerd.service

to enable it for boot and start it:

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systemctl enable --now containerd.service