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

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 24 15:59:25 UTC 2015


Quoting Guillaume ZITTA (guillaume at zitta.fr):
> I'm sorry. But until now, the default path is the one we set with
> ./configure
> And I didn't see "lxc.system.conf" nor "lxc.lxcpath" at
> https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/
> 
> But let's be constructive ...

Sorry, I thought I was :)

Setting a default at build time is still certainly good practice for
the distro/packager.

> People don't read all the docs, they open configuration files and
> modify defaults to their needs.

Agreed.

> I don't have time to provide a patch, but I think this need to
> disappear from ./configure

Disagree, it should still also be buildtime-configurable, overridable
in the configs.

> and lxc should provide it as a default value in a highly commented
> configuration file

Agreed.  Perhaps we should open an issue on github, marked 'easy',
so someone in community can implement it.


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