Include `luarocks` in images
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enhancement
image:core
- Dominant language
- Dockerfile
- Stars
- 439
- Forks
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Description
Luarocks is a package manager for Lua. The Lua packages provided by OS packages sometimes don't match the Lua version included in pandoc, so they cannot be used in pandoc scripts. Installing packages via luarocks could fix that.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Inspect the repository's Dockerfiles and image build entry points to identify which pandoc images should include luarocks. Check how those images install Lua and verify the resulting images provide a luarocks command compatible with the Lua version bundled with pandoc.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, dockerfile
- Domain
- build-system, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100