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

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 14:54 -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote: 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 02:30:29PM -0500, Dwight Engen wrote:
> > 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?

> Up until this morning the python3 binding required an explicit
> --enable-python passed to configure. I only fixed that specific issue
> last night and have it now to auto-detection instead.

Damn.  Got it.  I see the unpackaged files now in the rpm build.  Tag, I
guess I'm it then.

I'll try and get this and the other little issue with the CentOS
template in to you in the next day or so.

Thanks!

> > > 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
> > 
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