[master] [TAR-610] [TAR-611] Build the daemon as part of the package building process

[seemethere]

Basically a reverse of #223.

Should hopefully resolve issues:

• docker-ce segmentation fault on Raspbian (v18.09.03) moby/moby#38175
• no devicemapper support in 18.09.x on ubuntu and debian for-linux#452

Tested with docker engine activate and docker engine update, which work as expected.

cc @andrewhsu @thaJeztah

[dave-tucker]

LGTM

[instantlinux]

As noted in docker/for-linux#452, version 19.05-ce still has the issue (missing support for devicemapper).

[seemethere]

@instantlinux There is no official 19.05-ce

[instantlinux]

Sorry, misread the version string: 18.09.5 is the version I found which is still problematic. The docker-ce edge releases have gotten shockingly WAY behind the current calendar date (8 months and counting).

[thaJeztah]

@instantlinux edge releases are no more; see https://blog.docker.com/2018/07/extending-support-cycle-docker-community-edition/

[instantlinux]

Got it, OK...Docker should overhaul its top-level website, there's a whole lot of information there rendered obsolete by that one blog entry.

[thaJeztah]

Do you mean the docs.docker.com website, or www.docker.com? (could you point to an example page that's problematic? then I can try forwarding that to the right team)

[instantlinux]

It's the docs.docker.com site that needs attention. If you go to the main https://docs.docker.com/install/ section About Docker CE, the text reads about the same as it has for the past 3+ years and doesn't give a hint that "hey this stuff changed in the summer of 2018!" What I'd do is basically delete the whole discussion of the release versioning and nightly builds and phrase it entirely differently to present the material from a new-user's perspective along with a link to a page for the longtime-user audience. You could try tweaking it around the edges by (1) linking to one or more of the blog entries that you cited here to highlight past changes to the process, (2) providing far-better charts showing the available supported versions (with explicit references to the version strings that each distro accepts, e.g. "apt install docker-ce=18.09.bla-blah), and (3) making it clear that the calendar-date thing isn't really working anymore and that the company is now doing semver instead.