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

Dwight Engen dwight.engen at oracle.com
Tue Feb 5 14:38:04 UTC 2013


On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:05:00 +0400
Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:

> 05.02.2013 02:34, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> []
> > 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.
> 
> Oh.  Thank you very much Stéphane for the explanations.  Much
> apprecated, you did it well.

Sorry Michael, I should have referenced the original discussion. I
was just trying to help out with the alpha3 list :) You're right there
wasn't much explanation in the patch. Thanks Stéphane for reiterating
the reasons for doing this.




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