Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > On 07/06/2010 08:25 PM, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: >> Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>> I currently use LV hosts and guests based on CentOS 5.x. > > First off thanks to all for your replies. > >>> >>> This means I either have to learn to build my own kernel RPM or (this is >>> going to sound bad no matter how I put it) trust in others. The trust >>> isn't so much in their work but in their having time to do the work. >>> >>> I figure I should start building my own. This way I get the latest and >>> greatest and it could lead to a LV "distribution." >>> >>> So how do I go about getting the leanest and meanest host? Right now, >>> even if I build from a stripped down install of CentOS there are a pile >>> of "extras". >> >> "Extras"? > > Well probably the wrong term. Rather all the dependencies. Yum > requires Python etc. Yeah, you can't build CentOS guests from the repos without yum (and thus Python). I use python for a lot of other things though, e.g. snmpd plugins, so that's not really an issue for me... >>> But I'd still like to build CentOS guests (yum, etc.) to make the >>> maintenance/upkeep easier on others. >>> >>> They feel like contradictory goals. >> >> What are the goals, exactly? > > A stripped down host but CentOS guests. Assuming you go for something not CentOS, I guess you can build template guests elsewhere. >>> So my question for now: How do the developers build their systems? >> >> Personally, I use CentOS 5 almost exclusively, with two Debian systems >> sprinkled in there. > > OK. I like that (and I knew you used CentOS.) > > Do you build, for your own use, kernel, yum, and util-vserver RPMs? > Even if not where do I find the spec files or src RPMs that you use for > the yum repo? (And I feel a big twinge of guilt since I think I went > through something similar to this a year of so ago then fell down on > getting the info on the wiki.) 8-( The source RPMs are available from the repository, http://rpm.hozac.com/dhozac/centos/5/vserver/SRPMS/ and spec files etc from http://src.hozac.com/viewvc/rpms/ (requires IPv6). -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson