Subject: Re: [vserver] upgrade a guest
From: mess-mate <mess-mate@orange.fr>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:07:37 +0100

Corey Wright wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:38:35 +0100
> mess-mate <mess-mate@orange.fr> wrote:
>
>   
>> any remarks about a dist-upgrade of my vserver guest from etch (debian) 
>> to lenny before i do something wrong.
>> Can i do that as usely with an update, ugrade and dist-upgrade after 
>> changing /etc/apt.sources.list ?
>>     
>
> just a helpful hint: look
> through /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost of the
> util-vserver package in lenny (which either should or will be installed on
> your host, assuming the host is running lenny) and see what it does.  it's
> the post install script for a debian guest.  this script cleans up a new
> debian install for running as a vserver guest (eg removing
> hardware-specific startup symlinks under /etc/rc*.d, removing sendsigs test
> for splash screen in /proc/cmdline), but there is no script to clean up an
> upgraded install.  the script is also some what release-specific, ie the
> lenny version accounts for rsyslog and dsyslog, which were not available in
> etch.
>
> so browse through that script, figure out what is applicable to your
> upgraded lenny guests, and manually execute that part of the script (or do
> it completely by hand).  or just live with the annoyances, because i don't
> remember the script doing anything that's *required* for running an
> upgraded guest (during my previous experience upgrading guests from sarge
> to etch; maybe not even *required* for a new install, but definitely
> silences some init script hardware-specific complaints seen on guest
> start-up).
>
> corey
>   
Ok, thanks Corey, i'll take care of it.
BR

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