No LXC rpms for EPEL8 / Centos8

f18m commented 4 years ago

Hi, since I'm having troubles to use LXC3 on Centos 8 (I filed this bug: https://github.com/lxc/lxc-templates/issues/21) I would like to try out using LXC2 but I noticed that this project does not build for EPEL8 / Centos8... is it possible to add EPEL8 / Centos8 builds? thanks!

ganto commented 4 years ago

I don't think it makes any difference, as the lxc-templates from LXC2 are actually the same but bundled with LXC instead of separately. With LXC3 and especially LXD the traditional shell templates were deprecated in favour of lxc/distrobuilder. It just recently got support for CentOS 8.

Now you have the following options:

Adjust the traditional lxc-centos shell script template to deal with CentOS 8. That might be quite a lot of work...
Use the pre-built container image from images.linuxcontainers.org via LXC download template:
```
lxc-create -t download --name test01 -- --dist centos --release 8 --arch amd64
```
Or you build your own CentOS 8 image with distrobuilder. If I find time I will try to update the distrobuilder RPM in the copr-lxc3 repository in the coming days. The version currently packaged is a bit outdated and doesn't support CentOS 8 yet. Otherwise you can build distrobuilder yourself with the installation instructions from the README

f18m commented 4 years ago

Hi @ganto , Thanks for the detailed answer. I just tried out the "lxc-create -t download" method and I was able to successfully create a centos8 LXC container, thank you very much!

I just wonder why in case you give "-t centos" they don't print any warning to inform you about this deprecation :)

Thanks!

ganto / copr-lxc

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