Subject: Re: [vserver] About building Fedora9 guest
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:02:32 +0200

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:13:03PM -0500, Corey Wright wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:54:26 +0200
> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:20PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Host - Debian Etch
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm prepared to follow following document to install 32bit Fedora 9,
> > > the current version;
> > > 
> > > http://linux-vserver.org/Installing_32-bit_Fedora_on_64-bit_Debian
> > > 
> > > 
> > > However on;
> > > 
> > > [host]$  ls -l /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/
> > > total 52
> > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 centos4
> > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 defaults
> > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc1
> > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc2
> > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc3
> > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc4
> > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc5
> > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 fc6
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 gentoo
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 redhat
> > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 rh9
> > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 suse91
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-27 23:16 template
> > > 
> > > 
> > > No fc9 directory is found.  Please advise what shall I do?  
> > 
> > your options are:
> >  - update to a more recent util-vserver versions
> >    (0.30.215 or one of the 0.30.216pre should be fine)
> >  - bug the debian maintainer to update those files
> 
> the maintainer has updated those files... in unstable/"sid", which
> eventually migrated to testing/"lenny".  stephen is running stable/"etch"
> which was officially released with, and will only officially ever have,
> 0.30.212.  if he wants a newer, but unofficial, version he can install
> 0.30.215 from backports.org. [1]  but that still won't give him a "f9"
> directory; for that he needs 0.30.216 from testing or unstable, which might
> not install on stable.
> 
> [1] http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
> 
> > > Create it myself? 
> > 
> > you can, but that's probably non trivial ...
> 
> could he install the backported 0.30.215 and copy the f9 directory from
> the upstream util-vserver?
> 
> btw, let me take this opportunity to thank micah for maintaining the

second that, micah is doing good work (within the dubious
bounds of debian policy)

> util-vserver debian package (and ola before him).

I will thank ola personally as soon as he resigns
maintainer status on everything Linux-VServer related :)

best,
Herbert

> corey
> -- 
> undefined@pobox.com