[lxc-users] future of lxc/lxd? snap?

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:15 PM Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel at aixigo.de>
wrote:

> On 2/25/19 4:52 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> >
> > snapcraft.io <http://snapcraft.io/> is also owned by Canonical.
> >
> > By using lxd snap, they can easly have lxd running on any distro that
> already support snaps, without having to maintain separate packages.
> >
>
> The problem is that there is no standard for all "major" distros,
> as this discussion shows:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/9lbm0c/snapd_for_rhel/
>
>
You mean "RHEL doesn't have snapd"? You'd have to ask redhat then.


> Debian already has an excellent packaging scheme.


Sure.

The question now is "is anybody willing to maintain debian lxd packages"


> The RPM world
> doesn't follow snapd, as it seems.


Really?
https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snap-on-fedora/6755


> And if you prefer your favorite
> tool inside a container you can find docker images everywhere.
>
> A few years ago compatibility was achieved on source code level.
> Sorry to say, but you lost that for lxd. And snaps are not a
> replacement.
>
>
In the past I've built private RPMs for lxd on centos. It became a hassle
though as (for example) I need to port additional packages as well. And I
needed to change the kernel to a newer one, unsupported by centos. But it
works.

So if you're willing to build from source, it should still work.

-- 
Fajar
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