From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH] liblxc: lxc-debian expects missing directories Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:21:44 +0100 Message-ID: <498ABDB8.4000702@free.fr> References: <1233824717.28338.8.camel@localhost> <498AAF77.20906@free.fr> <1233826174.28338.30.camel@localhost> <1233827943.28338.49.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1233827943.28338.49.camel@localhost> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Matt Helsley Cc: Containers List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Matt Helsley wrote: > 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 >>>> --- >>>> >>>> >>> 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). > Ok, I understand why you tried to force the directory creation. I will not apply this one, the next patch you sent with the partial debootstrap will fix this. Thanks Matt.