[arch-general] Building in docker?

[Neven Sajko]

Magnus, did you run that lxc-create with root rights?


On 4 September 2014 07:24, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:36:23PM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:04:37AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > > For various reasons I'm looking into not using `makechrootpkg` when
> > > building the 200+ packages I put into a non-official repo.  Obviously
> > > it's important to keep the building environment separate from my
> > > ordinary system environment.  Going to full virtualisation is
> > > definitely overkill and the only containers I know of are chroots and
> > > docker.
> >
> > If by chroot you mean also nspawn, then it is mostly equivalent to
> > docker and lxc. The only thing bad about systemd-nspawn is its lack
> > of easy config through files (it only supports cmdline switches
> > which is ridiculously cumbersome).  Also, docker is more complex
> > than a plain lxc-tools approach.
>
> As always complex doesn't automatically translate to complicated ;)
>
> In this particular case I had no issues with following the
> instructions I found on docker.  While when spending the same amount
> of time on getting lxc to work I get stuck almost immediately:
>
> ~~~~
> % lxc-create -n test -t archlinux
> lxc_container: No mapping for container root
> lxc_container: Error chowning /home/magnus/.local/share/lxc/test/rootfs to
> container root
> lxc_container: Error creating backing store type (none) for test
> lxc_container: Error creating container test
> ~~~~
>
> And quick googling didn't turn up anything useful.  Reading through
> the Linux Containers page [1] didn't help either.
>
> /M
>
> [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_Containers
>
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