Hi, Ben Green wrote: > Quoting Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> Ben Green wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> recently I compiled util-vserver with a very useful patch by >>> Alexanders which make its work with systemd hosts. >>> >>> https://github.com/AlexanderS/util-vserver/tree/fix/systemd-shared-mounts >> >> Does this work without breaking existing functionality? IIRC that was >> the >> problem originally with the patches to enable that. > > Thanks for getting back to us Daniel! > > I've not found any problems with the patch so far. There's been some > odd behaviour on my desktop machine, but all the other test > environments I've tried it seems fine. And using the admin namespace for mounting things into a running guest works? >>> I'd like this to be merged upstream, but the >>> river has run dry. >> >> I haven't gotten any direct emails or notifications from github, so >> curious >> how you determined that? > > https://github.com/linux-vserver/util-vserver/pull/26 > > There's the pull request from 23rd July 2016. You've not responded to > it since then, there's been no response to the pull request #25 > either. The discussion about it was on IRC. > The last time you communicated via github was is March 2014, > so I think I can be forgiven for assuming that wasn't a good > communication channel for you. > > As for direct mail, I didn't want to disturb you if you were keeping a > distance from the project, this was clearly a mistake on my part and > in future I will send an email to you. > > You have been largely unresponsive on your usual channels of > communication. It's absolutely your right to do that and I have no > judgement against it. I realise that the project has been somewhat > languid due primarily to it working so well without need of any > changes, and that I'm now pushing for changes due to my own personal > needs, which you can help with or not as you see fit. Do you want to maintain it? I don't want to create releases if I am not going to around to fix issues in it. No release is better than a broken release in my opinion. > Most of us hate systemd and the way it was plopped onto all our heads > like a unfortunate seagull crap, but it appears to be here to stay and > I just want to try to cope with it now. > >> Generally, you would just include the patches on top of the upstream >> tarball >> in your package, just bumping the release number appropriately. No need >> to >> rename anything, as that just causes confusion and unhappiness. > > I wanted to provide a repository with both the upstream and the > AlexanderS branch. To that end I've rebuilt the packages with the > following names and included them in the Psand repository: > > util-vserver-systemd - utilities for managing Linux-VServer guests Probably not the best name as IIRC Enrico's systemd patches create a subpackage with that name. Daniel > util-vserver-systemd-build - tools which can be used to build vservers > util-vserver-systemd-core - core utilities of util-vserver-systemd > util-vserver-systemd-legacy - legacy scripts for util-vserver-systemd > util-vserver-systemd-python - python-bindings for util-vserver-systemd > util-vserver-systemd-sysv - initscripts for util-vserver-systemd > > The original util-vserver versions are still in the repository and > I'll continue to maintain them if any changes to util-vserver come > from upstream. > > I'd love it if people would test these packages, let me know of any > problems. > > Cheers, > Ben > > > > >