[Lxc-users] Ubuntu template questions

[Papp Tamas]

On 03/08/2012 04:30 PM, Papp Tamas wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 09:27 AM, Papp Tamas wrote:
>> hi All,
>>
>> I always created an own template with debootstrap and I used it.
>>
>> Now I tried lxc-create -t ubuntu and I still have some question and 
>> suggestion:
>>
>> 1. I suggest ntpdate not to be installed (remove after debootstrap). 
>> Also I think 'update-rc.d -f ondemand remove' would be fine in the 
>> container. Actually I see this somewhere in the script, but I had to 
>> do it manually.
>> 2. It would be nice, if a postinstall script can be called automatically
>> 3. I think rootfs.hold file should be documented better, for example 
>> with a text message in it.
>> 4. I always wanted to ask, why lxc-create command has a switch '-n' 
>> if it defined in the configuration anyway?
>> 5. There are a number of custom devices, which I think by default 
>> should not be there. For example tun and others. Or are they 
>> necessary? Is this just a kind of failsafe solution for the 
>> beginning/beginners which needs to be tuned?
>> 6. How can I deploy it to a custom directory? With the switch '-B' I 
>> was not successful. Anyway, many times I just want to create a 
>> container with no individual partition (volume). Now I copied it from 
>> /var/lib/lxc.
>> 7. Why does lxc-destroy remove the container files without asking 
>> about it? I think is a bad idea.
>> 8. The script creates some custom upstart config file:
>> lxc.conf: Why don't use lxcguest package?
>> ssh.conf: why is this necessary?
>> console.conf: It should be in the package upstart as tty[0-6].conf or 
>> in lxcguest package, isn't it?
>>
>> 9. The script just removes config files instead of using dpkg-divert:
>> rm -f $rootfs/etc/init/tty{5,6}.conf
>>
>> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls u*.conf); do 
>> mv $f $f.orig; done'
>> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls 
>> tty[2-9].conf); do mv $f $f.orig; done'
>> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls 
>> plymouth*.conf); do mv $f $f.orig; done'
>> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls 
>> hwclock*.conf); do mv $f $f.orig; done'
>> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls 
>> module*.conf); do mv $f $f.orig; done'
>>
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> 10.
>> if [ $release != "lucid" ]; then
>>     sed -i 's/^.*emission handled.*$/echo Emitting lo/' 
>> $rootfs/etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
>> fi
>>         * Would not be better if there is an lxclo.conf from 
>> lxcguest? Than you don't need to worry about package updates.
>
> One more, I think very important question.
> Still there is no nice stop method in init configuration:
>
>
>     for f in /etc/lxc/auto/*; do
>         c="$(basename $f .conf)"
>         lxc-stop -n $c || true
>     done

hi Guys,

Are these questions or requests somehow not good?
I'm really interested in them:)

Thank you,
tamas