metatar
Manipulate tar file metadata, list tar files or convert tar to cpio. For some projects, this can replace fakeroot and cpio, when creating an initrd image that is compatible with the Linux kernel. Used in production in at least one company. (by xyproto)
common
Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos. (by containers)
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| metatar | common | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 31 | 163 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 6.2 | 9.7 | |
| about 2 months ago | 2 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
metatar
Posts with mentions or reviews of metatar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-15.
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Way to organize / catalogue / consolidate 40 drives logically
Method 9: Extract metadata from tar into YAML https://github.com/xyproto/metatar
common
Posts with mentions or reviews of common.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
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Improve Jupyter Notebook Reruns by Caching Cells
Dockerfile and Containerfile also cache outputs as layers.
`docker build --layers` is the default: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-build.1.htm...
container/common//docs/Containerfile.5.md: https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containe...
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Is it possible to generate the default `containers.conf`?
https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/pkg/config/containers.conf ? But it's empty save for the comments, since it's supposed to be customized by your distribution. Still, starting point.
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buildah/podman overlay on build context
Argh, the fix is rw on the mount line, not ro=false. This is missing from the documentation (https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containerfile.5.md).
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File contents intermediate layers from building
A good resource to start is the Containerfile man page.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing metatar and common you can also consider the following projects:
common - Developer tooling framework
Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell
afs - Abstract File Storage
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
sake - :robot: sake is a task runner for local and remote hosts