Subject: Re: [vserver] building centos 5 guest on debian host
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 16:52:09 +0200 (CEST)

Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
>> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to do what has been discussed in
>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/vserver@list.linux-vserver.org/msg10287.html
>> > on amd64 debian squeeze.
>> >
>> > The naive
>> >
>> > vserver v36 build --force -m yum -n v36 --hostname 36.1.168.192.ativel.com --context
36
>> > --interface eth0:192.168.1.36/24 -m debootstrap -- -d centos5
>> >
>> > doesn't work, presumably I need rpmstrap instead
>> > of debootstrap?
>> >
>> > How do you did it?
>>
>> Install a patched yum, and use -m yum just as you would on
>> a yum-native system.
>
> This one?
>
> http://linux-vserver.org/Yum-patch

Very little of that would apply, but I suppose the overall concept
is accurate, although the correct URL would be
http://git.linux-vserver.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=util-vserver.git;a=tree;f=contrib;hb=HEAD

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson