i just ended up going with a new image with the components installed, which i’ve been informed is best practice. --------------------------- Hey there! i have an Owncast container that needs two extra files added to it every time it starts up because the base image doesn’t include them. they can be downloaded from within the container. i just need a way to tell the container to always do that when it starts up. i’ve tried adding this to my quadlet: [Container] Exec=apk update && apk add --no-cache mesa-va-gallium mesa-dri-gallium but it doesn’t work. does anyone know how to correctly automate this? thanks!

i just ended up going with a new image with the components installed, which i’ve been informed is best practice.

  • aksdb@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    The idiomatic way would be to build your own image. That’s exactly the strength of the layering of container images.

    • Nico198XOP
      1·
      30 days ago

      understood. this is the route i ended up taking. thank you!

      • aksdb@lemmy.world
        2·
        29 days ago

        I think you won’t regret it. If the container startup installs stuff, you might lock yourself out when the remote server has issues, your network has issues, or if the package you install changes due to an update.

        With it baked into an image, you have reproducible results. If you build a new image and it doesn’t work anymore, you can immediately switch back to the old one and figure out the issue without pressure.

        • Nico198XOP
          2·
          29 days ago

          great thoughts, thank you for sharing! i’m still quite new to containerization.