Subject: Re: [vserver] current guests
From: Chuck <chuck@sbbsnet.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:05:36 -0400

 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:05:36 -0400
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

hmm..maybe i can sneak it on.... what are the caveats on this... i have not 
looked into it at all... any problems with traditional layouts/packages/etc 
or unexplained hiccups in start/stop of the vserver? i guess im asking is if 
there is anything noticable to the mildly trained eye when watching it work. 
if not i might get away with it and use a 2008 stage.


> Bene



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Chuck