distribute Machine via Docker PPA

[tecknicaltom]

It's a bit silly that the Docker Machine documentation [1] and releases page [2] recommend installing Machine by curl'ing an elf binary, especially considering that Docker has distro-specific means of distribution such as an Ubuntu PPA [3]. Ignoring that the curl line will fail unless run as root or that the documentation doesn't mention the checksums listed on the releases page, this means of installing outside of package management is less convenient for users. Please consider adding packages for Machine to Docker's existing PPA.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/machine/install-machine/
[2] https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/
[3] https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntulinux/

[StefanScherer]

Maybe this may help what we use to build the ARM version of docker-machine and deploy it to packagecloud https://github.com/hypriot/arm-machine
We just use fpm.

[cadavre]

+1, why it actually isn't happening? :D

[nickurak]

It sure feels wrong to have different ways of getting different parts of the docker ecosystem, some of which are automatically updated and some of which aren't.

See also the equivelant issue for compose: docker/compose#2235

[ruXlab]

It doesn't feel right to download an binary file without any checksum/signature checks while there are many package managers who could take care of that and allow to update docker-machine automatically.