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This fixes an issue where if you did
man -k podman-run

podman-run (1)    - (unknown subject)

Now you will see

man -k podman-run
podman-run (1)       - Run a command in a new container

More importantly

man -k containers | grep podman
podman (1)           - Simple management tool for containers and images
podman-kill (1)      - Kills one or more containers with a signal
podman-pause (1)     - Pause one or more containers
podman-ps (1)        - Prints out information about containers
podman-rm (1)        - Remove one or more containers
podman-start (1)     - Start one or more containers
podman-stats (1)     - Display a live stream of 1 or more containers' resource usage statistics
podman-stop (1)      - Stop one or more containers
podman-unpause (1)   - Unpause one or more containers
podman-wait (1)      - Waits on one or more containers to stop and prints exit code

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

Closes: #676
Approved by: mheon
2018-04-26 13:46:14 +00:00

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% podman(1) podman-import - Simple tool to import a tarball as an image % Urvashi Mohnani

podman-import "1" "November 2017" "podman"

NAME

podman-import - Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image

SYNOPSIS

podman import TARBALL [--change|-c] [--message|-m] [--help|-h] [-verbose]

DESCRIPTION

podman import imports a tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) and saves it as a filesystem image. Remote tarballs can be specified using a URL. Various image instructions can be configured with the --change flag and a commit message can be set using the --message flag.

podman [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman import [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman import [OPTIONS] CONTAINER

OPTIONS

--change, -c Apply the following possible instructions to the created image: CMD | ENTRYPOINT | ENV | EXPOSE | LABEL | STOPSIGNAL | USER | VOLUME | WORKDIR Can be set multiple times

--message, -m Set commit message for imported image

--quiet, -q Shows progress on the import

EXAMPLES

# podman import --change CMD=/bin/bash --change ENTRYPOINT=/bin/sh --change LABEL=blue=image ctr.tar image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:c16a6d30f3782288ec4e7521c754acc29d37155629cb39149756f486dae2d4cd
 448 B / 448 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
# cat ctr.tar | podman -q import --message "importing the ctr.tar tarball" - image-imported
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
# cat ctr.tar | podman import -
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:d61387b4d5edf65edee5353e2340783703074ffeaaac529cde97a8357eea7645
 378 B / 378 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
podman import http://example.com/ctr.tar url-image
Downloading from "http://example.com/ctr.tar"
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:5813fe8a3b18696089fd09957a12e88bda43dc1745b5240879ffffe93240d29a
 419 B / 419 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-export(1), crio(8)

HISTORY

November 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com