refactor: use pylxd to determine if an instance exists
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Merged PR #874 replaced lxc-based existence checks with pylxd, resolving #856's LXD 6.6 missing-project errors; merged as commit 48bd685.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #874 was merged as commit 48bd685 and changed LXDInstance.exists() to use pylxd. Repository history and the closed issue record confirm it fixed #856.
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Use pylxd to check if an instance exists. This behavior makes Craft Providers agnostic to the current version of LXD (...for this particular operation).
Resolves #856.
CRAFT-4932.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR #874 replaced lxc-based existence checks with pylxd, resolving #856's LXD 6.6 missing-project errors; merged as commit 48bd685. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | closed resolved | Merged PR refactored LXDInstance.exists() to use pylxd for instance existence checks, resolving craft-providers#856 where the method could error if the LXD project didn't exist. |
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Related work
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Related To:
craft-providers#856
(confidence 100%)
PR #874 explicitly resolves this issue, where instance checks could error when the LXD project did not exist.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
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| #856 LXDInstance.exists() can error if project doesn't exist in LXD 6.6 | craft-providers | closed | Fixed by merged PR canonical/craft-providers#874 (commit 48bd685), which changed LXDInstance.exists() to use pylxd and avoid lxc list failures for nonexistent LXD projects. |