ORPG CODE B24 on Podman

Trace of getting the WSR-88D Open RPG (ORPG), CODE B24.0r1.20 (Public Edition), compiled and running inside a Podman container, and the plan to turn that into a proper production image.

Source docs (not included in this repo — see Container setup for where they live on disk):

  • v1_setup_code_b24_0r1_20.md — official Volume 1 setup guide, converted to Markdown, at the project root.
  • rpg_b24_0r1_20_pub_src.tgz / code_config_b24_0r1_20.tgz — the actual ORPG Public Edition source and CODE customization archives.

Why this exists

The official install doc assumes a bare-metal Intel PC running a full Red Hat Enterprise 8 Workstation install, with development tools and GUI libraries already present, and a C-shell (csh) account. None of that matches a minimal Kasm desktop container running as a non-root, rootless-podman user. This repo tracks every deviation made to get the same result in that environment, so it can be turned into a repeatable Containerfile later (see Production image plan).

Status

See ORPG install trace for the current state of each step.