Podman's events engine reads tmp_dir from containers.conf, not from
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directly. Write both storage.conf and containers.conf
to /tmp/podman-<uid> so no path under /run/user/<uid> is ever used.
Also use `env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=...` prefix on podman invocation to
override any stale value in the calling shell environment.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
Stop relying on conditional checks. Always point XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and
storage.conf runroot to /tmp/podman-<uid> so Podman never touches
/run/user/<uid>, which requires PAM/logind to create.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
SSH sessions may export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/<uid> even when that
directory doesn't exist or isn't writable. Check writability rather than
emptiness before falling back to /tmp/podman-<uid>.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
Podman uses XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for its RunRoot, events dirs, and default
socket path. Without it pointing to a writable location, podman fails
with 'mkdir /run/user/<uid>: permission denied' even before the socket
is created. Export it to /tmp/podman-<uid> when unset.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
/run/user/<uid> is created by PAM/logind and doesn't exist in non-login
shells. Fall back to /tmp/podman-<uid> when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset so
mkdir always succeeds.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
systemctl --user fails in non-interactive shells (no D-Bus session bus).
podman system service starts the socket directly without systemd/D-Bus,
backgrounding the process and waiting up to 5 s for the socket to appear.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
start.sh now activates the Podman user socket via systemctl --user if it
isn't running yet, then exports DOCKER_HOST and PODMAN_SOCK so that
podman compose (which delegates to the docker-compose plugin) can connect.
docker-compose.yml mounts ${PODMAN_SOCK} into the socat proxy container
at a fixed internal path (/podman.sock), so it works for both rootful
(/run/podman/podman.sock) and rootless (/run/user/<UID>/podman/podman.sock)
without hardcoding the UID.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKCW3FDjNFj6jve4niMFXH
start.sh now generates proxy/caddy.json at launch time with Let's Encrypt
automatic HTTPS (HTTP-01 or TLS-ALPN-01 challenge — no Cloudflare needed).
Reads DOMAIN_SUFFIX and ACME_EMAIL from infra/.env before starting.
Added infra/.env.example to document required vars.
start.sh builds via 'make build' (platform auto-detected) then starts
services detached with 'docker compose up -d'.
Makefile gains build/build-<platform> targets that build images without
starting, mirroring the existing up/<platform> targets.
