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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: generic "container" keyword for init scripts
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:20:52
Message-Id: 565FDF31.8000504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: generic "container" keyword for init scripts by William Hubbs
1 On 12/02/2015 03:49 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:28:44PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > Here is where my thoughts are on this now. There will be a
4 > "-containers" keyword, which will expand to list all of the containers
5 > we can detect on the operating system OpenRC is running on -- for
6 > example, on Linux it might be:
7 >
8 > "-docker -lxc -openvz -rkt -systemd-nspawn -vserver"
9 >
10 > So any time you list -containers as a keyword it would expand
11 > appropriately.
12
13 Sounds good.
14
15 >> OpenRC currently doesn't do any detection of virtual machines, so maybe
16 >> that could be another expansion of this -- add a keyword "vm" and
17 >> keywords for the virtual machines.
18 >
19 > VM's will be a separate project that I will look at later.
20 >
21 > Thoughts?
22
23 How about a bare-metal keyword?
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: generic "container" keyword for init scripts William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>