[MRG] Do not try to build the image with root as the primary user.

[Xarthisius]

Fixes #267 and #395. Solution suggested in #267 (comment)

[betatim]

Thanks! Waiting for travis.

[Xarthisius]

Did I draw a short straw and ubuntu removed artful within past few days/hours?

[betatim]

I think it is more likely this was a temporary connection thing as some of the tests passed that use the same docker file 🤞.

[betatim]

Though there is no good reason to use artful here, so we should switch them to bionic which we use for the rest of repo2docker.

[Xarthisius]

I think it is more likely this was a temporary connection thing as some of the tests passed that use the same docker file .

I can reproduce that locally: docker run --rm -ti ubuntu:artful apt-get update -qqy. I think it's gone, gone. I will bump to bionic.

[betatim]

lol. It looks like the first test "passes" because we expect it to fail and it does, just not because of overallocation of RAM but because there is a problem with building the image. This means your suggestion of "artful support stopped" is probably right. I'll make a PR to switch the tests to bionic. I'll wait for you to do this.

[Xarthisius]

lol. It looks like the first test "passes" because we expect it to fail and it does, just not because of overallocation of RAM but because there is a problem with building the image. This means your suggestion of "artful support stopped" is probably right. I'll make a PR to switch the tests to bionic.

OK, will wait for your PR then.

[betatim]

#677 for updating the base image.

[betatim]

#677 is merged. If we rebase this PR we should be good to go.

This PR is a great example of why it is so hard to estimate how long it will take to do something. "Change up a few lines to give a better error message, child's play!" ... except then we go down the rabbit hole of Ubuntu releases and how the Docker API works :)

[Xarthisius]

#677 is merged. If we rebase this PR we should be good to go.

Already did that :)

[betatim]

Ah yes, I should make use of GitHub snitching on the git push -f crowd. It used to be that well kept secret between me and github when I did that ... and now they tell everyone! :)