Gitian-building instructions need updating #6555

Opening this issue to hopefully save somebody else a lot of frustration:

The git HEAD version of gitian-builder uses lxc-start --version which is a new option that doesn't exist in the version of LXC you get with Debian 7; specific error is:

$ make-clean-vm --suite precise --arch amd64
lxc-start: unrecognized option '--version'

The doc/gitian-building.md instructions should either be updated to recommend using a specific commit of gitian-builder (2bcc06e6b75b3f7a0167cde7237331757dd559c6 worked for me), or somebody should work through using Debian 8 as the host operating system (I started down that path but don't understand LXC deeply enough to figure out how to make it all work).

The upgrade to Debian 8.1 has been started in #6419. I'll PR some of the changes there shortly.

On Friday, August 14, 2015, Gavin Andresen notifications@github.com wrote:

Opening this issue to hopefully save somebody else a lot of frustration:

The git HEAD version of gitian-builder uses lxc-start --version which is a new option that doesn't exist in the version of LXC you get with Debian 7; specific error is:

$ make-clean-vm --suite precise --arch amd64 lxc-start: unrecognized option '--version'

The doc/gitian-building.md instructions should either be updated to recommend using a specific commit of gitian-builder (2bcc06e6b75b3f7a0167cde7237331757dd559c6 worked for me), or somebody should work through using Debian 8 as the host operating system (I started down that path but don't understand LXC deeply enough to figure out how to make it all work).

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