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. >> 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 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. 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 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