[lxc-devel] "use defined rootfs mount point" regression?

[Nathan Lynch]

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:49 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:
> 
> > On 05/21/2010 11:14 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano at free.fr>  writes:
> >>    
> >>> On 05/20/2010 10:40 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>> lxc-execute: No such file or directory - failed to access to '/usr/lib64/lxc', check it is present
> >>>> lxc-execute: failed to set rootfs for 'truetest-19794'
> >>>> lxc-execute: failed to setup the container
> >>>>
> >>>> /usr/lib64/lxc does not exist on the host.  Is this the intended
> >>>> behavior?
> >>>        
> >>> Yes, you have to create it. I expect the distro maintainers to update
> >>> their package %post_install section to create the directory.
> >>      
> >> It should probably be a job for lxc's make install as well, though
> >
> > Yes, it's possible. But we have to take care of package generation
> > eg. rpmbuild which creates a temporary install directory.
> 
> Sure, the package generation will generally have to change as well.
> During that, make install is usually called with DESTDIR set to some
> temporary directory, and the packaging tools (at least in Debian) can
> warn the packager is something is left there but was not put in any
> package.

Yes, RPM does this too.  If make install had created this directory the
package build would have broken, which would be better behavior than
failing at runtime.