[Lxc-users] lxc-ubuntu: Default to current ubuntu release. If can't match any valid release, use lucid.

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgraber at ubuntu.com):
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:13 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgraber at ubuntu.com):
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
> > 
> > My thought (which I meant to point out in the help output) was
> > that we should default to the latest LTS.  lucid for now, 12.04
> > when it comes out.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > If you think it's better to use the host's release by default,
> > I'm fine with that.
> 
> I kind of like having all the defaults set to what I'm currently
> running.

Me too, but I had a feeling that most users would want an LTS.

> One thing that bothers me is that we can't give the distro, arch, ... as
> parameter when doing a lxc-create (which I'm assuming is the most common

What do you mean?

lxc-create -t ubuntu -f /etc/lxc.conf -n n1 -- -a i386 -r natty

Is that not what you mean?

> way of using our templates).
> 
> Should we change the template to prompt the user instead? showing the
> supported values for the distro and architecture (at least) and using
> the current system's values as a default?

By default no, but we could add a [-i|--interactive] option to the
ubuntu template?

-serge