<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 9:46 PM Richard Hector <<a href="mailto:richard@walnut.gen.nz" target="_blank">richard@walnut.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br><br>I see that lxd in ubuntu cosmic and disco is a transitional package for<br>snap - I see that lxd can be used for snap packages, but they're not the<br>same thing, right?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-August/040455.html" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-August/040455.html</a><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1788040" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1788040</a><br></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And Debian buster (even sid) still doesn't have lxd at all.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>They have snapd. Which you can then use to instal lxd.</div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is lxd not the future of lxc after all? At least in debian-based<br>distros? Or is it expected (by ubuntu) that we only use lxc for snap<br>packages?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>You mean "use lxc from snap packages"?</div><div>Read the two links above.</div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm currently using lxc on debian, but wondering what happens next ...<br><br>This all seems odd since the linuxcontainers site says the project is<br>sponsored by Canonical ...<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><a href="http://snapcraft.io/" target="_blank">snapcraft.io</a> is also owned by Canonical.</div><div><br></div><div>By using lxd snap, they can easly have lxd running on any distro that already support snaps, without having to maintain separate packages.</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:22m" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/1x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.54; width: 24px;"></div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb gmail-adL"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Fajar</div></font></span></div></div>