Re: [PATCH] liblxc: Update lxc-debian to use the lenny release

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 18:14 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>   
>> Matt Helsley wrote:
>>     
>>> With the release of lenny nearing this patch may soon be useful.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>>> ---
>>>  scripts/lxc-debian.in |    4 ++--
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Index: lxc/scripts/lxc-debian.in
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- lxc.orig/scripts/lxc-debian.in
>>> +++ lxc/scripts/lxc-debian.in
>>> @@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ create() {
>>>  	        # download a mini debian into a cache
>>>  		echo "Downloading debian minimal ..."
>>>  		debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase --arch=$ARCH \
>>> -		    --include apache,netbase,net-tools,iproute,openssh-server \
>>> -		    etch $CACHE/partial-$ARCH http://ftp.debian.org/debian
>>> +		    --include apache2,netbase,net-tools,iproute,openssh-server \
>>> +		    lenny $CACHE/partial-$ARCH http://ftp.debian.org/debian
>>>  		
>>>  		RESULT=$?
>>>  		if [ "$RESULT" != "0" ]; then
>>>   
>>>       
>> Applied, thanks Matt.
>>
>> ps : I added the ifupdown missing package because ifup/ifdown are no 
>> longer in the initscripts package.
>>     
>
> 	Hasn't debian switched to Network Manager too? Seems like there should
> be a way to interact with it via scripts without forcing the use of
> ifup/ifdown.
>   
It looks like the minbase does not have the network manager (I didn't 
checked if it is available for "lenny").
So I just made a quick fix adding the ifupdown scripts in order to have 
the debian booting with the network up.
Using the network manager is an interesting solution, but in the short 
term I think the lxc-debian script should be improved to provide a 
simple TUI configuration menu so we can make more complex configurations.
> 	I was somewhat suprised to find debootstrap is incredibly easy to
> install by hand on non-debian systems. Even better, there's a package in
> fedora. So I've been playing with lxc-debian on fedora 9 and 10. However
>   
Yeah, it is a great tool. I am experiencing to do the same with a 
fedora. It may be possible to use yum like debootstrap for an minbase 
fedora install.

> I've had problems "Configuring" the opennssh-server package. Removing
> that package allows lxc-debian to create the rootfs. I haven't found an
> underlying reason yet :/ -- have you run into this problem?
>   
Mmh, no. I just recreated several times a debian, logged via ssh and I 
didn't fall in this problem.
What problem did you faced ?