On 07/06/2010 08:25 PM, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> I currently use LV hosts and guests based on CentOS 5.x. First off thanks to all for your replies. >> >> This means I either have to learn to build my own kernel RPM or (this is >> going to sound bad no matter how I put it) trust in others. The trust >> isn't so much in their work but in their having time to do the work. >> >> I figure I should start building my own. This way I get the latest and >> greatest and it could lead to a LV "distribution." >> >> So how do I go about getting the leanest and meanest host? Right now, >> even if I build from a stripped down install of CentOS there are a pile >> of "extras". > > "Extras"? Well probably the wrong term. Rather all the dependencies. Yum requires Python etc. >> But I'd still like to build CentOS guests (yum, etc.) to make the >> maintenance/upkeep easier on others. >> >> They feel like contradictory goals. > > What are the goals, exactly? A stripped down host but CentOS guests. >> So my question for now: How do the developers build their systems? > > Personally, I use CentOS 5 almost exclusively, with two Debian systems > sprinkled in there. OK. I like that (and I knew you used CentOS.) Do you build, for your own use, kernel, yum, and util-vserver RPMs? Even if not where do I find the spec files or src RPMs that you use for the yum repo? (And I feel a big twinge of guilt since I think I went through something similar to this a year of so ago then fell down on getting the info on the wiki.) 8-( Rod -- >