manoj23

Install Ubuntu containers on Archlinux using LXC

Install the lxc and the debootstrap packages:

# pacman -Sy lxc debootstrap 

Install an Ubuntu container

I will install Ubuntu 16. Therfore, I will use the xenial release.

manoj23

Archlinux packaging of ckermit and the lock directory issue

The current situation

ckermit uses the default /var/lock folder which is "rwxr-xr-x 5 root root". ckermit is patched to handle the environment variable LOCK_DIR to specifiy another lock directory. Archlinux no longer provides the lock directory /var/lock/lockdev to allow users in the lock group to read/write into it.

What I suggest

Archlinux should put back the folder /var/lock/lockdev which would be: "drwxrwxr-x 2 root lock": it is unclear why they have removed it.

manoj23

version: '2'
services:
  mediawiki:
    image: wikimedia/mediawiki
    links:
      - mysql
    environment:
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_TYPE=mysql
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_USER=root
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword

manoj23

#!/bin/sh

mw_var()
{
        local mw_local_settings=$1
        local mw_var=$2

        sed -n "s/^\$$mw_var = \"\(.*\)\";/\1/p" $mw_local_settings
}