[lxc-users] LXD project status

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:08 AM, gunnar.wagner
<gunnar.wagner at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> so the 'snap-only' policy I thought would be applied for LXD is not that
> strict then and traditional .deb packages still exist?
>

The way I see it, is that it is just Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that gets the .deb package
and will keep having it until 2018+5=2023.

Ubuntu 16.04 will keep having LXD 2.0.x from the deb repositories
until 2016+5=2021.

Is it such an issue to have the snap version of LXD?

Simos

>
> On 3/29/2018 8:44 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:32 AM, gunnar.wagner
> <gunnar.wagner at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> On 3/28/2018 2:45 AM, Michel Jansens wrote:
>
> Does this means LXD 3.0 will be part of Ubuntu 18.04 next month?
>
> I guess (as LXD is using snap packages by default, right) it's not a matter
> of distribution any lomnger but more of distribution able to run snap
> packages well (which not every distribution does as far as I know [i.e.
> OpenSUSE])
>
> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be based on LXD 3.0.xx, supported until 2018+5y =
> 2023.
> Those that have the LXD snap ('lxd', stable channel), are likely to
> get upgraded to 3.1, 3.2 and so on,
> as the new versions appear.
> It was mentioned on the forum in December that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will
> have by default the .deb version of LXD 3.0.
>
> This happened with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which has LXD 2.0.xx (currently at
> 2.0.11)
> and is supported until 2021. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was launched with the
> new LXD 2.0 at that time.
>
> When you do 'snap info lxd', you get
>
> ...
> channels:
>   stable:        2.21        (5866) 49MB -
>   candidate:     2.21        (6005) 51MB -
>   beta:          3.0.0.beta7 (6240) 55MB -
>   edge:          git-9a60cd9 (6251) 55MB -
>   2.0/stable:    2.0.11      (5384) 21MB -
>   2.0/candidate: 2.0.11      (5384) 21MB -
>   2.0/beta:      ↑
>   2.0/edge:      git-d71807e (6069) 20MB -
>
> which means that there is the option to switch to the snap 'LTS'
> version of LXD 2.0 ('2.0/stable').
>
> Simos
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