[lxc-devel] [PATCH] rename /etc/lxc/lxc.conf to /etc/lxc/default.conf

[Stéphane Graber]

On 02/04/2013 05:02 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 05.02.2013 01:57, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> 05.02.2013 01:53, Dwight Engen wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>
>> [lots of changes, no explanation...]
>>
>> What for?  Why?
>>
>> This change is purely cosmetic, it has no visible benefit
>> (and no explanations are given in the patch too), but it
>> sure breaks compatibility with previously installed and
>> perfectly working systems and scripts.
>>
>> If you ask me, I'd say "definitely not".  It is just not
>> a smart move.
> 
> And rejecting perfectly good sender which is not in any block
> lists, with good reputation, at MAIL FROM stage "due to anti-spam
> policies" is yet another non-smart move.  I understand this is
> different people.
> 
> <dwight.engen at oracle.com>: host aserp1030.oracle.com[141.146.126.68] said: 554
>      5.3.0 5.7.1 Permanently rejected due to our anti-spam policies. (in reply
>      to MAIL FROM command)
> 
> (this is about isrv.corpit.ru[86.62.121.231] - our mail host).
> 
> Note that rejecting at MAIL FROM stage means, for example,
> that we can't send email to postmaster to notify them that
> their anti-spam policies are stupid.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt

This change was discussed a few weeks ago on this list and suggested by
me with approval at the time by both Dwight and Serge who are both
active lxc contributors.

I haven't reviewed Dwight's implementation yet but will very soon and
expect to have this landed later this week.

The reason for the change is that /etc/lxc/lxc.conf was a mistake I made
earlier, we shouldn't have called it this when merged upstream and it's
now going to cause a great deal of confusion as we'll be introducing
other system wide configuration files.

As such we decided to rename /etc/lxc/lxc.conf to /etc/lxc/default.conf
as soon as possible, to minimize the impact on our users. Distributions
will easily be able to transition from one to the other as we're not
changing the file format at this point.

0.9.alpha3 will also see the introduction of the "real"
/etc/lxc/lxc.conf which will contain system wide settings for the lxc tools.

Note that as far as I'm aware, no official release of LXC contain
/etc/lxc/lxc.conf at this point as it was introduced early in the 0.9
cycle and so renaming it will only affect alpha users.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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