Writing a plan for sbt

Habitat Help
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Hi there,

I have just discovered Habitat, and after inspecting some of the existing core plans, I had a go at building one for sbt.

I thought of sharing this here, hoping to get some feedback and maybe contributing it upstream later on. Specifically, I am a bit uncertain on the following.

Why can’t I export the plan as a docker container?

I can verify that the plan builds sbt correctly by running:

hab pkg exec afiore/sbt/1.1.6 sbt

However, when I try exporting the package as a docker container (in hab studio), I get the error below. What is a primary service and should sbt be one of those?

[2][default:/src:1]# hab pkg export docker results/afiore-sbt-1.1.6-20180730072046-x86_64-linux.hart
[...snip..]
✗✗✗
✗✗✗ A primary service package could not be determined from: ["afiore/sbt"]. At least one package with a run hook must be provided.
✗✗✗

What do I do next?

what else do you recommend to do when developing a new package before opening a PR to the core repo?

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Currently, only habitat packages that are services can be exported as docker containers. That means a run hook or a $pkg_svc_run is needed. I’ve heard chatter about this possibly changing in the future.

If you want to do this now, here’s how I’d do it: write a Dockerfile that takes a lean image like alpine, uses the curl|bash to install habitat, then runs the hab pkg install command of your choice. You could even choose to binlink your executable to eliminate the hab pkg exec call.

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Thanks for the clarification @HT154! Also, the way around you suggest sounds pretty good

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Here is an example of what @HT154 is talking about as a stop-gap https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/blob/master/components/rootless_studio/default/Dockerfile