Tuesday 21 August 2018

Re: Transition of LXD from deb to snap

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:46:34AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 20.08.2018 23:13, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > If you're running downstream software which interacts with LXD, I'd
> > strongly recommend you try switching to the snap, either using the
> > package in that PPA or manually by installing the LXD snap and then
> > running "lxd.migrate".
>
> there are (and for are for a while) currently failing lxd autopkg tests
> triggered by other packages (see update_excuses). What's the future of these?
> Short term fixing those please, and long term?

LXD 3.0.2 which we'll be uploading this week has a "fix" for those
errors (effectively shellcheck becoming more verbose).

The empty LXD deb will not contain any autopkgtest so once the
transition to the snap is done, autopkgtest will effectively always be a
no-op.

> Matthias

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