[Lxc-users] lxc-execute-ephemeral?

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Dan Kegel (dank at kegel.com):
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Serge Hallyn
> <serge.hallyn at canonical.com> wrote:
> > I think you're better off submitting a patch to make lxc-start-ephemeral
> > work better for you.  I.e. an option to have it print the container
> > name to a file, or have it optionally internally use lxc-console instead
> > of ssh, etc.  In other words you don't have to hack around its shortcomings,
> > feel free to address them instead.  Once you're sure exactly what you need.
> 
> OK.
> 
> (I think I'll want to submit two patches:
> 1. -d should wait until init is finished, to ease grabbing the container name
> 2. add an optional -n flag for those who are quite sure they want to name
> the ephemeral container something nonrandom.  (The caller would have
> to make sure that name is available first somehow.)
> 
> I'm a bit confused about what upstream is, though.
> git://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxc/lxc still seems to
> be behind https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/lxc_0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu28.debian.tar.gz
> by about 75 patches, and lxc-start-ephemeral isn't even in git.
> So what would the patch be against -- lxc-start-ephemeral as installed by the
> latest quantal?
> And will it eventually land at lxc.git.sourceforge.net?

Upstream is the sourceforge tree.  My github tree
(git://github.com/hallyn/lxc) is a staging tree for patches which are in the
Ubuntu package, but are not yet upstream.  The ubuntu package is a distro
package, not upstream.

-serge