[lxc-users] We need a lxc-top utility

[Serge Hallyn]

That would require packaging and main inclusion of the lua-filesystems
package (at least, not sure if there are others missing)

Quoting CDR (venefax at gmail.com):
> sudo apt-get install lua-lxc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package lua-lxc
> 
> Is there a way to add lxc-top to the regular LXC repository?
> Yours
> Federico
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 01:56:54PM +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >>> Quoting CDR (venefax at gmail.com):
> >>> > Wrong, that RPM was in Fedora, in Ubuntu I connected to a repository.
> >>> > But "lxc-top" is not there.
> >>> > How do I get that utility?
> >>>
> >>> sudo apt-get install lua-lxc
> >>>
> >>> Yeah that really should be more discoverable...
> >>
> >> Note that this only works with the PPA builds, not with what's in the
> >> distro as lxc-top or the binding (can't remember) depends on a lua
> >> module which isn't packaged.
> >
> > Did you mean alt_getopt.lua?
> >
> >> For the PPA I just bundle it in the
> >> packaging but this hack isn't suitable for the distro itself, so as long
> >> as it's not packaged we won't be able to ship lxc-top by default in
> >> Ubuntu.
> >
> > texlive-base includes it on its own private path, and it's on "main" section
> >
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?mode=exactfilename&suite=trusty&section=all&arch=any&keywords=alt_getopt.lua&searchon=contents
> > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/lua-alt-getopt/alt_getopt.lua
> >
> > Is there a particular reason it's allowed to do so while lxc isn't?
> >
> > --
> > Fajar
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