LoL. Go for it man, use zfs or btrfs while you're at it, and use "lxc copy" from your own "golden" container. Then the create process will be instant using zfs/btrfs snapshot/clone, no need to download anything.
-- Fajar On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Aw, I wanted to port to lxd anyway. > On May 19, 2016 8:48 PM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> OK, thanks. I'll port to lxd at some point. Until then, I'll add a >>> retry loop. >>> >>> >> You shouldn't need to switch to lxd JUST to use a download template (or >> images, in lxd term). Simply "lxc-create -t download ..." >> >> But yeah, your temporary-solution of retry loop should also work for the >> purpose of 'work around a failed package download' >> >> -- >> Fajar >> >> >> >>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> The first time, it failed with >>> >> W: Couldn't download package insserv (ver 1.14.0-5ubuntu3 arch amd64) >>> >> I: Retrieving iproute2 4.3.0-1ubuntu3 >>> >> W: Couldn't download package iproute2 (ver 4.3.0-1ubuntu3 arch amd64) >>> >> ... >>> >> E: Couldn't download packages: iproute2 insserv >>> >> Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/var/cache/lxc/xenial/partial-amd64' >>> >> lxc-create: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1290 container >>> >> creation template for rbb-ubu1604-1-ubu1604 failed >>> >> >>> > >>> >> Either way, should lxc-create be so willing to abort on package >>> >> download failure, or should it sleep and retry a bit somehow? >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > IMHO that behavior is correct. The ubuntu template uses debootstrap, so >>> > whatever you're seing is debootstrap's response. >>> > >>> > I suggest you use the download template instead (-t download), which >>> would >>> > basically get a tar file with preconfigured packages. It would help if >>> your >>> > problem was on 'creating new connection phase' (which sometimes would >>> happen >>> > if say ... your ISP employs a transparent http cache) or 'partial >>> > inconsistent mirror' (since you'd only be getting a few files), plus >>> it'd be >>> > much faster (no need for package install and configure phase after >>> download) >>> > >>> >>
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