Re: [PATCH] liblxc: lxc-debian expects missing directories

[Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 01:29 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 10:20 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > Matt Helsley wrote:
> > > lxc-debian fails unless the directories a given rootfs needs already
> > > exist. To fix this without relying on any particular function call order
> > > we can do: mkdir -p `dirname PATH/TO/FILE`
> > > before actually making the file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> > > ---
> > >   
> > Do you have an example on how that happens ?
> 
> Configure lxc with a non-/ prefix:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr

This explanation is wrong, sorry.

The patch isn't necessary -- take a look at the one that handles
debootstrap interruption/failure. Basically debootstrap would fail
(apache doesn't exist in lenny I found out) and I'd have to go cleaning
up lxc-debian directories by hand before I could retry. If I missed
something one time then then lxc behaved oddly. This got me past some of
that odd behavior (only to fail later of course).

Cheers,
	-Matt