[lxc-users] lxc-top packaging

[CDR]

It is impossible to manage a large installation of LXC containers
without lxc-top.
My impression is that the honorable engineers are separated from the
daily struggle of us, business men.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I think Dwight mostly wrote lxc-top as an example of what can be done
> using his lua binding, so that's why it's in lua :)
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:51:58PM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> Just out of courious, Why lua and not python?
>>
>>
>> On August 28, 2014 4:59:02 PM Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 04:22:03PM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 08/28/2014 04:10 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>> >> >On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:15:14AM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> >> >>hi All,
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Why is it not built and included in the (ppa) package?
>> >> >>What about the lua bindings?
>> >> >lxc-top is included in the daily and daily-stable-1.0 PPAs if you
>> >> >install the lua-lxc package.
>> >> >
>> >> >It's however not in the stable PPA or in the Ubuntu Archive because some
>> >> >of its dependencies aren't packaged and therefore had to be directly
>> >> >bundled within the package (which is fine for a PPA but isn't policy
>> >> >compliant with the Ubuntu archive).
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Does it mean it will never be in the stable ppa?
>> >
>> >The stable PPA is a clean backport of what's in the Ubuntu archive, so
>> >once we have the missing lua dependencies in Ubuntu itself and can build
>> >lua-lxc there, then it'll get into stable.
>> >
>> >I have however no idea of when that may happen, last I checked, there
>> >was just a request for package in Debian for lua getopt which when it
>> >gets done should resolve our problem.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> t
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