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Cannot build devcontainers features

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When using vscode on Flatpak with podman and devcontainers as suggested [here](https://gist.github.com/FilBot3/4424d312a87f7b4178722d3b5eb20212), builing of [devcontainer feature](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers#_dev-container-features) fails.

The cause is that this involves building a container image with a build context which is not shared with the host:

```
[1/2] STEP 3/4: COPY --from=dev_containers_feature_content_source devcontainer-features.builtin.env /tmp/build-features/
Error: building at STEP "COPY --from=dev_containers_feature_content_source devcontainer-features.builtin.env /tmp/build-features/": checking on sources under "/tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342": error in copier subprocess: changing to intended-new-root directory "/tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342": chdir /tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342: no such file or directory
Stop (729 ms): Run: podman-remote buildx build --load --build-context dev_containers_feature_content_source=/tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342 --no-cache --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_BASE_IMAGE=mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1-1.23-bookworm --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_IMAGE_USER=root --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_FEATURE_CONTENT_SOURCE=dev_container_feature_content_temp --target dev_containers_target_stage -f /tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342/Dockerfile.extended -t vsc-mycode-e878bb43015990a9f48c5b2226813a3b60f7a9ab826928aad91c912747c3bc3c-features /var/home/user/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/config/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/data/empty-folder
Error: Command failed: podman-remote buildx build --load --build-context dev_containers_feature_content_source=/tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342 --no-cache --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_BASE_IMAGE=mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1-1.23-bookworm --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_IMAGE_USER=root --build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_FEATURE_CONTENT_SOURCE=dev_container_feature_content_temp --target dev_containers_target_stage -f /tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342/Dockerfile.extended -t vsc-mycode-e878bb43015990a9f48c5b2226813a3b60f7a9ab826928aad91c912747c3bc3c-features /var/home/user/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/config/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/data/empty-folder
```

Here, the failing command is:

```bash
podman-remote buildx build --load \
--build-context dev_containers_feature_content_source=/tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342 \
--no-cache \
--build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_BASE_IMAGE=mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1-1.23-bookworm \
--build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_IMAGE_USER=root \
--build-arg _DEV_CONTAINERS_FEATURE_CONTENT_SOURCE=dev_container_feature_content_temp \
--target dev_containers_target_stage \
-f /tmp/devcontainercli-user/container-features/0.79.0-1753825289342/Dockerfile.extended \
-t vsc-mycode-e878bb43015990a9f48c5b2226813a3b60f7a9ab826928aad91c912747c3bc3c-features \
/var/home/user/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/config/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/data/empty-folder
```

and it fails because the build context is not accessible from the host, where podman is running.

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