compile.sh PREFER_DOCKER=no - documenting the flag

[ag123]

hi

 

I've been using the flag 

compile.sh PREFER_DOCKER=no

 

while building in a systemd-nspawn  container:

Building Armbian using Ubuntu (jammy) in a systemd-nspawn container

 

This time I managed to make a complete successful build with my work arounds for loop devices in systemd nspawn.

 

However, the flag PREFER_DOCKER=no

Didn't seem to be documented in the build options

https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/

 

can the documentation be updated to add PREFER_DOCKER=no flag (at least under 'advanced users') ?

note that it isn't possible to run docker normally within systemd-nspawn or that it'd require all those workarounds such as patching and using the host docker server which defeats the purpose of using docker.

rather systemd-nspawn is the container to at least decouple the build environment from the host os environment (which can be a different linux distribution, I'm doing so from OpenSuse https://www.opensuse.org/), with the unfortunate caveat that loop devices still requires a workaround.

 

[Werner]

Whole documentation is needs updates. Like all the build switches  (kernel, kernel-config, uboot,...) are missing...

[Igor]

There is ongoing activity to set some top level re-design and prepare ground base. I doubt random person would start to do that, so this is what we have to do.

I also already answered on similar topic in Documentation tickets:
https://github.com/armbian/documentation/issues/390