[SOLVED] Slackware 14.2 lxc-slackware template missing libunistring

mralk3 · 07-14-2018, 02:45 PM

In the Slackware 14.2 lxc-slackware minimal template (/usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-slackware) wget is missing the dependency libunistring. So slackpkg will not work and it is a real pain in the butt to install packages within 14.2 lxc containers. I did not see this issue in Slackware-current's lxc package. Here is a small diff:

Code:

--- lxc-slackware.orig	2018-07-14 12:09:32.288309335 -0600
+++ lxc-slackware	2018-07-14 12:23:52.507272464 -0600
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@
 grep
 gzip
 iputils
+libunistring
 logrotate
 mpfr
 net-tools

Everything else seems to be working as expected with the minimal lxc slackware template.

ponce · 07-15-2018, 10:27 AM

I can confirm this: it seems that the wget version in /patches started using libunistring.

montagdude · 09-10-2018, 08:33 AM

I ran into this as well. A workaround is to download the libunistring package on the host and copy it into the container's rootfs, and then install it in the container. I didn't see libunistring in the Slackware template for the -current lxc package either. Anyone know if this has been fixed upstream, or should it be reported? Browsing the latest git master, it wasn't immediately apparent where such a change would go, because the templates directory doesn't have much in it.

montagdude · 09-10-2018, 08:52 AM

Okay, I see this in the git log:

Code:

commit aafb5ea2a849056f9866359996605af0290605bd
Author: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 26 21:12:17 2018 +0100

    tree-wide: rm templates in favor of distrobuilder
    
    Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

Prior to that commit, libunistring was present in the Slackware template, so I guess it was fixed. However, I don't see any Slackware template in lxc/distrobuilder, and it indeed seems to be a rather immature project. The last 2.x release, which still had the template files, did not have the libunistring fix. Perhaps this warrants a patch in the -current SlackBuild, then.

montagdude · 09-10-2018, 07:39 PM

Code:

Mon Sep 10 21:00:00 UTC 2018
patches/packages/lxc-2.0.1-x86_64-5_slack14.2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Added libunistring to the list of initial packages in the Slackware
  template since it is now required by wget, and without it slackpkg will
  not function properly. Thanks to mralk3.

Thanks Pat!

mralk3 · 09-13-2018, 12:46 AM

Sweet! Thanks for fixing this!