Bug#1042989: ITP: Incus -- Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 12:52 PM Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Late last night I successfully built Incus as a Debian package for
> the first time! 🎉️
Nice!
> There are two blockers before we can perform the initial upload to
> NEW:
>
> 1 -- Remaining build deps:
>
> * We're still waiting on bin:golang-github-canonical-lxd-dev to
> make it through NEW.
>
> * golang-github-grafana-dskit-dev still needs to be packaged, but
> Incus seems to only have a single use of that library in
> internal/server/loki/loki.go. Last night I just patched out any
> reference in loki.go to dskit/backoff so everything else could build.
> Obviously not an ideal approach. However, do we want to consider
> disabling loki support in Incus for the time being to facilitate
> getting Incus into Debian? I'll keep working on packaging dskit and
> eventually we can re-enable loki support once it's packaged.
I'm not terribly familiar with the LOKI integration but that
particular dependency has been bothering me for a while given how much
stuff it pulls in.
I'd love to see it gone, but I'd have to figure out exactly what's
needed and how easy it may be to re-implement.
I wouldn't expect the LOKI log ingest protocol to be so complicated
that it needs such a large dependency chain.
> 2 -- Testing/QA:
>
> * General testing: Later today I'm planning to start testing Incus
> on a sid machine. I'm sure this will turn up various things to
> fix/tweak. Before uploading to NEW, at a minimum I'll want to make sure
> containers and VMs work out-of-the-box.
>
> * LXD migration: Simple migrations from LXD to Incus should work.
>
> * QA: Go through the debian/ directory in the Incus packaging to
> make sure it's all in good shape and is synced up with current LXD
> packaging work.
>
> Excited to be close to the finish line on this!
Yep, exciting times!
> Mathias
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Stéphane
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