Subject: Re: [vserver] LV and CentOS 6
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:37:07 -0700

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
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