Subject: Re: [vserver] LV and CentOS 6
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:53:10 +0100

 On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:45:30 +0100 (BST), "--[ UxBoD ]--" 
 <uxbod@splatnix.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:31:26 -0700, "Roderick A. Anderson"
>>  <raanders@cyber-office.net> wrote:
>> > Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> >> On 08/25/2011 11:40 PM, 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?
>> >> I've been running RHEL6 based VServer setups since the first
>> >> public
>> >> beta of RHEL6 without any problems. I'm also running it on F13
>> >> (very
>> >> close to RHEL6) on ARM without any problems. All running with
>> >> custom
>> >> patched kernels, of course.
>> >
>> > Great.  Makes me feel good about going this route.
>> >
>> > Did you build the LV kernel from a tarball and patches or use a
>> > RPM?
>>
>>  Vanilla tarball and vserver patch. Never saw much point in jumping
>>  through all the hoops required for re-packaging a kernel as rpm.
>>
>>  Gordan
>>
> Gordan,
>
> How have you handled util-vserver ? was that compiled from source 
> as-well ?

 Yes. IIRC there is a spec file in the source tarball so you can use 
 rpmbuild -tb to generate a rpm.

 Gordan