On 6/09/10 9:23 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:00:36AM +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote: >> On 6/09/10 8:11 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote: >>> Hi Guys >>> I just tried to upgrade to the kernel above, the system booted well but >>> a vserver-stat did not show any guests running. >>> I can not be sure but I think they may have actual been running because >>> the shutdown process did take some time like it normally does. >>> Any ideas ? >>> Note. I tried compiling a newer version of util-vservers but because >>> util-vservers seems to be written to use the latest tools available it >>> would not compile into a package. >>> Thanks >>> Mike >> I have a debian lenny system which I'm compile >> util-vserver-0.30.216-pre2913 on, the packages compile except for a >> requirement for python-2.6 which I've overridden. > what exaclty are you doing to compile (what packages)? > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us >> The issue is that the resulting packages do not have any of the files >> that should be there. Here is an example of the util-server directory in >> the debian build area >> apps1:/usr/src/util-vserver-0.30.216-pre2913/debian# find util-vserver >> util-vserver >> util-vserver/DEBIAN >> util-vserver/DEBIAN/control >> util-vserver/DEBIAN/md5sums >> util-vserver/usr >> util-vserver/usr/share >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver/copyright >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver/README.gz >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver/changelog.Debian.gz >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver/NEWS.gz >> util-vserver/usr/share/doc/util-vserver/changelog.gz >> apps1:/usr/src/util-vserver-0.30.216-pre2913/debian# find util-vserver >> Where as the tmp directory where all the files where initial build to >> is full of the files. > debian builds in /tmp ?! Yep /usr/src/util-vserver-0.30.216-pre2913/debian/tmp has all the files, but there not being broken up in to there package directories as show above. >> tmp >> tmp/var >> tmp/var/run > [rest zapped] > >> I can not use the prebuild debian packages at >> http://repo.psand.net/info/ as they insist on having the files in >> locations which break my system. > well, what about building them the old fashioned way > with ./configure, make, make install install-distribution? > Never done it that way and I have no idea where its going to place the files and how I could manage them into the future. That's the reason why packing systems where developed ;) I'll try to use a program called checkinstall, which I've used in the past to handle this type of packaging issue. Thanks Herbert Mike