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Re:Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha by sherburt3 on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:46AM (#40354129)
What does NORWAY mean?
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Re:Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha by steve_rambo on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:49AM (#40354157)
https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/
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Re:Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha by svieira on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:49AM (#40354165)
Norway's 2 character country code abbreviation is "NO". Which is one of the many ways to spell the boolean `false` in YAML 1.0. Which is yet-another-way-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot with DSLs written in YAML.
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Re:Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha by pdimitar on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:49AM (#40354162)
Likely a joke with the YAML parsers that parse `NO` as the boolean value `false` when the writer of the YAML file intended to put Norway's 2-character code as a key in a map.
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