Question regarding the toolbox man page

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Hi people, I am Nils.

Here is something I noticed:

The man page for

toolbox enter --help

gives the following three examples:

EXAMPLES
   Enter a toolbox container using the default image matching the host OS
              $ toolbox enter

   Enter a toolbox container using the default image for Fedora 36
              $ toolbox enter --distro fedora --release f36

   Enter a custom toolbox container using a custom image
              $ toolbox enter foo

The last example confuses me. How does $ toolbox enter foo know which image to use? Isn’t “foo” the name of the container? Or do they actually mean: “Enter a custom toolbox container using the default image”, like in the first example?

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Ah, I understand, container names have to be globally unique. I thought different images can have identical container names.

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Still, “Enter a specific toolbox container” would be a better explanation, in my opinion.

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4

Please make a change request then.

5

Done.

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