Comment 8 for bug 1949504

We use Ansible inside of Docker to test the automation code we deploy
to actual servers.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 7:40 AM Jarno Suni <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> BTW why do you want to install kernels in a container, if they are not
> used anyway?
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> Title:
> linux-purge assumes current kernel needs to be installed in Docker
> container
>
> Status in linux-purge:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am unable to run linux-purge inside a Docker container because it
> assumes that the currently running kernel should always be installed
> and properly configured which is not a valid assumption when running
> Ubuntu inside a Docker containrer. When run in a Docker container, its
> using the kernel of the host, therefore your host could be Ubuntu
> 20.04 and the container could be running Ubuntu 16.04. Therefore,
> trying to use the --fix option is not a valid solution in this case
> which is what it suggests when exits with an error because 16.04 wont
> have access to the 20.04 kernel packages in the default upstream
> repos.
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