[lxc-devel] Maybe gotta problem here...

[Dwight Engen]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:52:22 -0500
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:

> Ok...
> 
> So I work on a lot of RHEL / CentOS / Fedora / SL / NST stuff.
> Basically they're all rpm based systems.  I generally test through the
> rpms.  i.e. I don't build from scratch, scratch, I rebuild rpm's for
> myself and install from yum each time.  It actually makes things
> easier and, occasionally, I spot something that I realize is wrong
> that wouldn't show up otherwise...
> 
> I've been puzzling about something and I think now that the
> lxc.spec.in file needs some loving care and updating.  What I noticed
> was that a number of posts refer to "lxc-ls --fancy" but my version
> of lxc-ls is a bash script and doesn't have that option.  That's from
> src/lxc/legacy. There's the python script lxc-ls but that's not
> getting installed in the rpm by the spec file.  Installing by hand,
> the Python lxc-ls gives me "python: lxc module not found" or some
> such.

Hi Mike, I also almost always just build an rpm and install it. The python
stuff doesn't get built on Oracle Linux 6.5 (so I suspect it will be
the same for RHEL, CentOS, SL etc., but not Fedora) because there is no
python3 available, which is why the legacy lxc-ls gets included there.
I'd think configure would get the newer stuff built on Fedora, but maybe
the .spec isn't packaging it?

> Crap.  That means the spec file has not been updated for all this API
> stuff that's been going on and I'm not sure what needs to be updated
> in there.  I'd like to look at making those changes and bringing that
> up to date ASAP before we go Beta (priority over a couple of other
> putter projects) but I'd like some guidance over what's needed.  I
> fear it's more than just getting lxc-ls to the latest and greatest...

I think it does make sense to update the .spec file and split out
python into a separate pkg like the lua stuff is.
 
> Regards,
> Mike