[lxc-devel] gentoo container building fails during wget.

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 24 03:05:03 UTC 2015


Quoting lxc at zitta.fr (lxc at zitta.fr):
> 
> Le 19/02/2015 12:54, lxc-developer at noci.xs4all.nl a écrit :
> > Ok, you were right. And your suggested command works as intended.
> >
> > the role of the --config wan't clear so there may be a documentation issue 
> > here. As it is about the config file for the lxc-create and not the config file 
> > for the container.
> >
> > btw, 
> > /etc as default for container rootfs doesn't seem a logical choice for me.
> > /opt or /var seem to be more logical choice as default.
> This is why I still maintain my own version of lxc's ebuild
> > It might even be better if the default container location is expicitly spelled 
> > out in default.conf.
> +1, "compile time" default sucks, but it's how it works

?  man lxc.system.conf.  You can set lxc.lxcpath in /etc/lxc/lxc.conf

> > On the website i saw lxfs & lxd are they coming to gentoo too?
> I'm not a gentoo maintainer.
> I did try to compile lxd, but it's pretty complicated when you don't know about "go" things.
> > Also i hope the openrc scripting will be carried on for a while as i don't 
> > intend  to use systemd until it PROVES itself to be mature.
> I don't like systemd, long life to openrc ! ;-)
> > Until now i have seem too many mishaps.. (VM's that could be setup from an iso 
> > image but would not boot and hang some where before the root filesystem is 
> > mounted with a black screen, or they end up in the initramfs system and there 
> > is nothing logged, and no tooling available to actually find out what happens 
> > (rather didn't happen, like pivoting to the actual rootfs).
> >
> > kind regards,
> > Nico
> 
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