[lxc-devel] [PATCH] add yum plugin to repatch rootfs on yum update

[Dwight Engen]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:36:34 -0500
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Quoting Dwight Engen (dwight.engen at oracle.com):
> > oracle-template: Split patching rootfs vs one time setup into
> > separate shell functions so the template can be run with --patch.
> > 
> > oracle-template: Update to install the yum plugin and itself (as
> > lxc-patch) into a container. The plugin just runs lxc-patch --patch
> > <path> so it is fairly generic, but in this case it is running a
> > copy of the template inside the container.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>
> 
> Neat :)
> 
> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>

It'd be better for the distro to be container aware (which it is a
*lot* moreso in 7) rather than all the patching, but we don't want to
diverge from the upstream distro too much and for older distro's I
think this is about as good as we can do.

The yum plugin might be useful for other yum based distro's too that
patch the rootfs (ie. it looks like Fedora and CentOS do) so that is
why I sent it here upstream. Thanks for applying.