liblxc: handle interruption/failure of lxc-debian more gracefully

With the release of lenny nearing this patch may soon be useful.

Signed-off-by Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/[email protected]>

---
 scripts/lxc-debian.in |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: lxc/scripts/lxc-debian.in
===================================================================

Quoted 20 lines · Matt Helsley

With the release of lenny nearing this patch may soon be useful.

Signed-off-by Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/[email protected]>

---
 scripts/lxc-debian.in |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: lxc/scripts/lxc-debian.in
===================================================================

scripts/lxc-debian.in +2 -2

@@ -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
 

scripts/lxc-debian.in create() { · line 229

Quoted 3 lines

scripts/lxc-debian.in +0 -0

 		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.

Quoted 28 lines · Daniel Lezcano

Quoted 14 lines · Matt Helsley

With the release of lenny nearing this patch may soon be useful.

Signed-off-by Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/[email protected]>

---
 scripts/lxc-debian.in |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: lxc/scripts/lxc-debian.in
===================================================================

scripts/lxc-debian.in create() { · line 229

Quoted 10 lines

scripts/lxc-debian.in +2 -2

@@ -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.

Quoted 3 lines

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.

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

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?

DL> It may be possible to use yum like debootstrap for an minbase DL> fedora install.

Yep, something like the following should work:

  root=/path/to/tmproot
  mkdir -p $root/var/lib/rpm
  rpm --root $root --initdb
  rpm --root $root -Uvfh --nodeps http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-10-1.noarch.rpm
  yum --installroot=$root -y groupinstall Base

Quoted 11 lines · Dan Smith

DL> It may be possible to use yum like debootstrap for an minbase DL> fedora install.

Yep, something like the following should work:

  root=/path/to/tmproot
  mkdir -p $root/var/lib/rpm
  rpm --root $root --initdb
  rpm --root $root -Uvfh --nodeps http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-10-1.noarch.rpm
  yum --installroot=$root -y groupinstall Base

Looks familiar! ;) I was intrigued by this idea last weekend so I started such a script. However I only tested it as far as creating a semi-correct rootfs. With the exception of network configs most of the configs are still written as for debian. For example I know the selinux policy enforcement settings need to move, the inittab needs to be replaced by the proper upstart configs, etc.

Of course it's based heavily on Daniel's excellent lxc-debian script.

Signed-off-by Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/[email protected]>

If lxc-debian fails or is interrupted during debootstrap then the next invocation of lxc-debian breaks because it only checks for the existence of the directory. This forces the user to remove the cache by hand to retry the create step.

Let's allow the user to re-run lxc-debian to resume/retry. Store the cache in a partial-$ARCH directory until debootstrap succeeds. Then move the valid cache to its final destination.

Signed-off-by Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/[email protected]>