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 -- Chuck