[Lxc-users] Dependencies Use Cases

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Daniel Baumann (daniel.baumann at progress-technologies.net):
> On 11/04/2011 01:16 PM, Huang Liang wrote:
> > Check out toft: https://github.com/exceedhl/toft. It provides rpm and
> > deb packages which already handles the dependencies on centos and
> > ubuntu.
> 
> why would one want this instead of using lxc from your distributions
> repository?
> 
> > Moreover, it packages the bind and dhcp setup on the host
> > machine  and ships with pre-created images, saves a lot of time of
> > hassling around these issues.
> 
> that particular 'problem' we're going to solve in debian within about a
> week when lxc provides linux-container (a generic version of something
> similar what lxcguest in ubuntu and for ubuntu-only does) and live-build
> therefore can build proper system images for lxc containers that are
> shipped through .debs and which are going to be prefered over caches in
> /var/cache/lxc in debians lxc package. don't know what ubuntu has in
> mind for such use cases.

We aim to fix the two things that lxcguest is currently papering
over so that the same unmodified ubuntu install can be used in
kvm, lxc, or on bare metal.

-serge