Subject: Re: [vserver] current guests
From:Benedikt Böhm <bb@xnull.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:59:05 +0200

 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:59:05 +0200

On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Chuck wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
>>>> where can i find a current gentoo i686 guest stage3? everything i
>>>> look
>>>> for is dated 2006. not interested in applications pre-installed so
>>>> not interested in i think what is called stage4. just want a bare  
>>>> o/s
>>>> vserver. or do i need to install a 2006 version then go thru all  
>>>> the
>>>> upgrade motions?
>>>
>>>> i think some time ago there was a package available that would take
>>>> a current standard stage3 and convert it to vserver. is that still
>>>> around if i need to go that route?
>>>
>>> had a short chat with Daniel, and we came to the
>>> conclusion that any gentoo stage3 should work
>>> with recent util-vserver and the 'gentoo' build
>>> method ...
>>
>> any stage3 with baselayout-2/openrc will work out of the box
>> see https://my.newthinking.de/~bbo/stages/ for up to date stage4
>> tarballs (these are the ones i use for work, so they contain some
>> basic utils)
>>
>
> ahh thank you, however i don't believe baselayout-2 is out of  
> unstable yet and
> our requirements for certain machines is everything must come from  
> stable
> production branches (not my policy believe me :) )..  ill play with  
> that for
> myself but i cant use it in production unfortunately until it is  
> released in
> the stable branch. will double check though to be sure and if it is  
> stable
> ill go for it.

there is no other way to do it, except you hack the init script from  
baselayout-1 on your own