Hoi Rob, On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 11:32 +0100, Johan Henselmans wrote: > > i had a short discussion the Bdale about jails in Debian, like there exist > > in FreeBSD: lightweight jails, having their own TCP/IP stack, which could > > compartimentalize a server. > > > > He mentioned that there are similar solutions in Debian, but did not > > mention any kind of software. I don't think he meant chroot environments, > > but I might be mistaken. > > > > Can anyone point me to that type of software in Debian? > <snip> > > Unfortunately LXC on Debian does not work out-of-the-box. This has to do > with the way Debian manages its releases. Releases are stable, and if a > package is broken at the time of freeze, or gets broken after the > release, it stays broken. LXC on Squeeze creates Lenny containers, but > the Lenny repositories are not available anymore. LXC on Wheezy was > frozen at the time the Debian LXC package itself was broken. Its very > unfortunate that LXC on Wheezy is broken because its maintainer has > clearly put a *lot* of effort in the package and now *normal* Debian > users cannot enjoy this great technology for years to come.
Is the issue you're talking about reported as a bug in the Debian BTS? I've just checked http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lxc;dist=unstable but couldn't find anything which matches. Groeten, Joost -- there's a TON of people who breath air, but that doesn't mean they're qualified professionals when it comes to wind-powered electric-generator engineering. http://lwn.net/Articles/408052/ http://mdcc.cx/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
