On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:49:42 +0800 "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:39:26 +0800 > > "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote: > > unless there's a "/etc/vservers/.distributions/hardy/initpost" or > > "/usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/hardy/initpost" (or whatever the > > equivalent paths are for your source install) that removes unneeded > > initscripts (like /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost, > > lines 125-139), then you'll have similar noise on guest startup or > > shutdown. and even then after some packages upgrade you have to > > manually clean up their reenabling of the init scripts (or extract what > > the inipost script does into a separate script). > > > >> While I reckon that these aren't critical errors, is there some sort > >> of "recommended way" for upgrading the files in a guest? > > > > either "vapt-get <vservers> -- (update|upgrade|dist-upgrade)" or > > "vserver <vserver> exec apt-get (update|upgrade|dist-upgrade)". > > > > is there any real difference (save for being able to do it for > multiple vservers) between 'vapt-get' and 'apt-get' in the guest? not that i know of. currently i have a script that i run from the host's cron that updates each guest's apt lists (ie apt-get update) and primes the caching proxy with any new package versions (ie apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only), but i'm thinking about migrating to apticron. when i'm upgrading the same package on multiple guests (like the recent login & passwd packages) i use vapt-get (eg "vapt-get --all -- dist-upgrade" or "vapt-get <vserver1> <vserverN> -- install login passwd"). > (I > guessing that initpost is probably one of the reasons) "/etc/vservers/.distributions/<release>/initpost" and/or "/usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/<release>/initpost" initpost only has to do with running "vserver <vserver> build -m debootstrap -- -d <release>". initpost is ran by the vserver command after it runs debootstrap. initpost has nothing to do with apt-get. sorry if i previously confused you, but i only mentioned initpost before because it helps reduce noise on startup, noise like you saw when upgrading procps using apt. > In which case, > is there any doc that talks more about vapt-get? man and 'vapt-get > --help' doesnt offer much in the way of help. Neither does the great > flower page. not that i know of. corey -- undefined@pobox.com