Arch Linux User Repository

You can submit patches to this PKGBUILD via GitHub PRs if you like: https://github.com/czka/AUR-singularity-container

Git config to keep both repos in sync easily:

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:czka/AUR-singularity-container.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:czka/AUR-singularity-container.git (push)
origin  ssh+git://aur@aur.archlinux.org/singularity-container.git (push)

@chwtu

the version printout is correct when building from source

But this PKGBUILD does build from source. Could you elaborate?

No, since I did not think they would mind it because the version printout is correct when building from source. But nvm as long as everything else works...

@chwtu

Why does singularity version of this install show bf6bdb5 instead of the expected version number

Good question. Have you tried asking the authors?

I previuosly build Singularity from sources of their github and switched to this for convenience and clean removal of old builds.

Possibly a newbie question: Why does singularity version of this install show bf6bdb5 instead of the expected version number (currently 3.5.2)? This is not even the hash of the commit with this release tag.

@gdolle

That's been already fixed with 3.0.2-2.

Hi @czk

From the admin doc "Singularity must be installed as root for full functionality." [1,2]

Also for security purpose, you prefer to execute singularity containers as regular user by default with limited privileges

(PS. user privilege in a singularity container are the same than on the host).

[1] https://www.sylabs.io/guides/3.0/admin-guide/admin_quickstart.html#build- from-source

[2] https://singularity.lbl.gov/docs-security#can-i-install-singularity-as-a-user

You can submit patches to this PKGBUILD via GitHub PRs if you like: https://github.com/czka/AUR-singularity-container

Git config to keep both repos in sync easily:

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:czka/AUR-singularity-container.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:czka/AUR-singularity-container.git (push)
origin  ssh+git://aur@aur.archlinux.org/singularity-container.git (push)

@flaviut

Applied. Thanks for sorting this out.

Can you please apply this patch to ensure that everything gets installed in the correct directories?

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index [`eadcbb3`](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=singularity-container&id=eadcbb3)..[`a052f61`](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=singularity-container&id=a052f61) 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ prepare() {
 build() {
   export GOPATH="${srcdir}/singularity"
   cd "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/sylabs/singularity"
-  ./mconfig --prefix="${pkgdir}/usr"
+  ./mconfig --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sbindir=/usr/bin
   cd builddir
   make
 }
@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ build() {
 package() {
   export GOPATH="${srcdir}/singularity"
   cd "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/sylabs/singularity/builddir"
-  make PREFIX="${pkgdir}/usr" install
+  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
 }

@gdolle

Please submit a PR to https://github.com/czka/AUR-singularity-container with the "install step (...) made as sudo" you suggest.

P.S.

And please explain why singularity exec with sudo is not good enough. Eg. this works for me:

singularity pull library://library/default/alpine

sudo singularity exec alpine_latest.sif echo "It works"

output: It works