Add iputils-ping (ping) to Docker image - #32015
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ping is a fundamental network diagnostic tool that most users expect to have available in the container. This adds iputils-ping to the apt install list in the Dockerfile. Co-authored-by: ninjmnky <ninjmnky@users.noreply.github.com>
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ping is a fundamental network diagnostic tool that most users expect to have available in the container. This adds iputils-ping to the apt install list in the Dockerfile. Co-authored-by: ninjmnky <ninjmnky@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 593e4b4)
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Problem
The official Hermes Agent Docker image does not include
ping(fromiputils-ping), a fundamental network diagnostic tool that most sysadmins and developers expect to have available out of the box.Running
pinginside the container currently fails with:Solution
Add
iputils-pingto theapt-get installcommand in the Dockerfile. This is a one-word, zero-risk change — the package is ~50KB and has no additional dependencies beyond what libc already provides.Why upstream?
Per the contributing guidelines: "If a tool is likely to be useful to most Hermes Agent users, consider contributing it upstream rather than carrying it in a private derived image."
pingis orders of magnitude more universally useful than most of the utilities already in the image (and far smaller too). Having it missing means every user who needs basic network diagnostics has to fork the image, which is exactly the overhead the guidelines aim to avoid.Changed
Dockerfile: Addediputils-pingto the apt package list.