Transition of LXD from deb to snap

Stéphane Graber stgraber at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 21 15:01:37 UTC 2018


On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:58:21PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 21.08.2018 16:56, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ... which is interpreted as a failing autopkg test.  You have to add an always
> succeeding autopkg test.

Sure but as I said just a paragraph above this, LXD 3.0.2, which we'll
be uploading this week, has a "fix" for this.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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