Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>> Now that CentOS 6 is available and I have an opportunity build a system >>> from scratch I was checking on options to do this. >>> >>> Nothing on the web site yet so I thought I'd look at Daniel's repo to >>> see if he's found the tuits to build a new kernel and util-vserver* >>> packages. Problem is I can't reach the site. >>> >>> So this is a two for one: Daniel, is rpm.hozac.com having problems? >>> >>> And has anyone taken, or planning on taking, the CentOS 6 plunge? >> Well I'm getting the pieces in place but have some questions. >> >> The plan: >> >> 1. Install CentOS 6 from the minimal CD/DVD. >> 2. Update to the LV kernel from Daniel's repo. >> >> The questions: >> >> 1. The repo only has CentOS 4 and 5 listed. What tricks do I have to >> use the repo for CentOS 6? (Sorry Daniel if this is still a work >> in progress and I'm getting ahead of the game.) > > http://rpm.hozac.com/dhozac/rhel/6/vserver/ > >> 2. Will the *el6* SRPMS work for CentOS 6? > > Depends on which ones you're talking about. The ones on the above URL, > yes. The ones in the 5 repo? No. OK. Do I need to munge the .repo file to point to the rhel directory instead of the centos? >> 3. And what are the *dhz* packages -- mkinitrd and yum -- for? > > mkinitrd is to make the 2.6.32 kernel work on RHEL/CentOS 5. The provided > mkinitrd doesn't know the correct module names etc. yum has the chroot > patch applied which makes it work for building guests. Could explain why I've had failed install/updates. Nothing critical but has kept me from moving forward. Do I need the mkinitrd package if I'm using your rhel6 RPMs and not building the from SRPMs? Rod --