[lxc-devel] Help building LXC from source

[David Richardson]

Thanks Tycho!

Indeed that fixes it.  Just to check: is my workflow the best build/install
method for doing development work on LXC source?

~Dave

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Tycho Andersen <
tycho.andersen at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:31:38PM -0700, David Richardson wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Apologies up front for a somewhat dumb question, but I'm looking to build
> > and install LXC from source on Ubuntu-14.04 so that I can debug some
> issues
> > I'm seeing with automounting in a container.  My current strategy is to
> > build from the source at *ppa:ubuntu-lxc/stable*, and it looks something
> > like:
> >
> > # Get all the LXC dependencies built and installed:
> > apt-get build-dep lxc
> > apt-get install adduser bridge-utils dnsmasq-base iptables python3
> apparmor
> > sysv-rc libc6
> >
> > # Get LXC source from repo and build the packages
> > apt-get source lxc
> > cd lxc-1.0.6
> > <MODIFY SOME CODE>
> > debuild -us -uc -b
> >
> > # Install built packages:
> > dpkg -i lxc_1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1_amd64.deb
> > ...
> >
> > Unfortunately, no matter what order I chose to install the .deb
> packages, I
> > get complaints about unmet dependencies between my packages.
>
> You can install multiple packages at the same time, e.g.:
>
> sudo dpkg -i lxc_*.deb
>
> and dpkg should figure out what order to install them in.
>
> Tycho
>
> > What's the best procedure for building, installing, and debugging LXC on
> a
> > dev box?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ~Dave
>
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