Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker engine

Re:Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker engine by panhandlr on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:23AM (#9622644)

"Nobody in their sane mine should curl a script into bash to install a product"

This, so much this.

I was actually extremely excited over a similar product "flynn"... but they have also lost their mind when it comes to installation: https://flynn.io/docs/installation

> sudo bash < <(curl -fsSL https://dl.flynn.io/install-flynn)

Seriously?

How is that any easier than just providing a package for any given distro?

I mean, for fucks sake, just give me the URL to a tarball with a fucking Makefile in it. I can handle the rest, thank you very much.

The security concerns alone should force any sane system engineer to never pipe curl to sudo'ed bash process.

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Re:Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker engine by icebraining on Friday May 29, 2015 @04:22AM (#9623377)

Would a zip with a Makefile do? Here: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/archive/master.zip

They have the source on Github, you're never forced to pipe curl to bash, it's just the default. Not a great default, admittedly, but hardly deserving all the hate.

How about contributing a PR with a script that produces OS packages, instead of complaining that the free cake doesn't come with a cherry on top?

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Re:Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker engine by pekk on Friday May 29, 2015 @08:28AM (#9624117)

I guess people are upset that this is the "officially sanctioned" way of installing the tool.

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