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Re:Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks by 0x006A on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:31AM (#8366200)
How would you install the build dependencies with busybox? Go requires some packages to build, from the Dockerfile:

apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gcc libc6-dev bzr git mercurial

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Re:Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks by zimbatm on Thursday September 25, 2014 @05:46AM (#8366380)
It's possible to install another package manager like opkg. See https://github.com/progrium/busybox
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Re:Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks by 0x006A on Thursday September 25, 2014 @06:19AM (#8366442)
right, that would be an option, if opkg had packages for python mercurial or bzr. (those are needed for go get to work). Don't see those in http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86_64/packages...
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Re:Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks by zimbatm on Thursday September 25, 2014 @11:57AM (#8367802)
Another solution is to build your go executable in a different container and import it into a busybox container. That changes the layering from:

    debian
    add go, bzr, mercurial, python, ...
    build executable
to:

    busybox
    executable
That reduces the amount of data that needs to be downloaded on new boxes by a factor of ten or so.
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Re:Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks by voltagex_ on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @01:30AM (#8386888)
Yeah, that looks good - I'm in Australia so anything that reduces the amount I need to download is excellent.
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