fix: rootless support for Alpine container image#123
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Patch out chown calls that fail without CAP_CHOWN in rootless containers. Use find instead of hardcoded gem paths so patches survive Ruby and gem version changes. Signed-off-by: Simon Lauger <simon@lauger.de>
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Maybe we should also add some tests - e.g. with https://github.com/googlecontainertools/container-structure-test |
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FileUtils.chowncalls inopenvoxserver-cagem — these fail in rootless containers because the process lacksCAP_CHOWN. The directory ownership is already handled correctly by theg=u/ SGID permission pattern.foregroundscript to usetouch + chmodinstead ofinstall --owner --groupfor the restartcounter file, which also requiresCAP_CHOWN.Both patches are the same approach used in the openvox-operator.
Tested on Linux with podman and bind-mounted CA directory — container starts successfully.
Note: When bind-mounting the CA directory with podman rootless, users need to ensure the directory is writable by the container user, e.g. using the
:Uvolume flag.Ref: #121