@jonathandturner see our discussion in #646. I'm interested to know about the choice to use ubuntu:16.04 instead of 18.04 - I wanted to copy the build used for azure pipelines to a T, but for this library it seems to install the correct version in the minified image if we target 18.04. I'm sort of at a loss also for why using the same base (16.04) installs different versions of libssl between nushell/nu-base and nushell/nu - does cargo/rust handle any core library installs or updates? The PR here will update the smaller image to have 18.04 (and the correct library) but it also means that the two images have different bases. Let me know your thoughts!

Update: we are testing 16.04!

umm no, nushell/nu is not based on ubuntu, its based on rust-slim which itself is based on debian

That is correct, I tested ubuntu:16.04 (for both) on my host and it resulted in the same issue.

Are you sure that you didn't mess up something? I am pretty sure that using the same base image will solve the problem. I just have a problem with ubuntu base images. They are too "fat" for my taste. But that is just my opinion of course.

I shared the recipe that I used in the issue - I guess you missed it? Here it is again (give it a try!)

ARG FROMTAG=latest
FROM quay.io/nushell/nu-base:${FROMTAG} as base
FROM ubuntu:16.04
COPY --from=base /usr/local/bin/nu /usr/local/bin/nu
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libssl-dev \
    libxcb-composite0-dev \
    pkg-config \
    curl
ENTRYPOINT ["nu"]
CMD ["-l", "info"]

I'm sorry you don't like the containers. If it's distasteful to you, perhaps you could do a PR to adjust the bases to your liking.

@vsoch OK, I tried it and it works. There is just no reason this should not work. Maybe you have used old nu-base image to generate new nu image?

Yeah that's a good call! Let me update the PR here to verify - since there is a test we will know for sure! Give me a minute!

@jeka as I reported, it does not work:

I'm going to change back to what I previously had that passed.