[lxc-devel] Beta: LXC template for gentoo

[Reto Gantenbein]

Hi

I also tried your gentoo template on a Fedora 19 host. I'm very happy,
that finally someone is picking this up again. If I remember correctly,
there used to be a gentoo template in earlier versions of lxc.

Next to the `mkdir -p` issue, I found some other small bugs which I
fixed and already sent you a pull request on github. The command I used
to setup the container was 'lxc-create -n gentoo -t gentoo -B btrfs'
with 1.0.0-0.1.beta1.fc19.x86_64.

Thanks for your good work.

Cheers,
Reto


On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 11:19 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 15:14 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 18:02 +0100, Guillaume ZITTA wrote: 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > > I'm working on lxc-gentoo template.
> > > https://github.com/gza/lxc-gentoo-template
> > 
> > > It needs more testing before asking for mainline inclusion, but it 
> > > mostly works.
> > > So posting if some interesting in testing with me.
> 
> > I'm interesting.  I'm running Fedora and CentOS hosts.  If it can build
> > a Gentoo container on a Fedora host, I'm VERY interested and willing to
> > test.
> 
> Ok...  Initial tests completed.
> 
> Observations:
> 
> *) Line 106: That mkdir needs a -p for the initial cache setup.  After
> that, I was able to successfully build a Gentoo container on my Fedora
> 19 host.  Good deal.
> 
> *) You probably do NOT need these entries in the config file:
> 
> # /dev/tty{0,1}
> lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:1 rwm
> lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:0 rwm
> 
> Those will be created as bind mounts to pty devices.
> 
> *) Similarly, not sure having the tun device in the default config is
> such a good idea.
> 
> *) Was not obvious what the login credentials were.  Had to look it up
> in the script.  Using root/toor is almost as bad as root/root.  In the
> Fedora and CentOS templates, I'm proposing to use temporary root
> passwords of "Root-${name}-${RANDOM}" and highly this at the end of the
> script in the user instructions.
> 
> *) Needs some clear user instructions at the end of the template to
> instruct the user what to do next (like what the password is and that
> hey should change it as soon as possible).
> 
> > > Regards,
> 
> > > Guillaume ZITTA
> 
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
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