Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Now that CentOS 6 is available and I have an opportunity build a system >> from scratch I was checking on options to do this. >> >> Nothing on the web site yet so I thought I'd look at Daniel's repo to >> see if he's found the tuits to build a new kernel and util-vserver* >> packages. Problem is I can't reach the site. >> >> So this is a two for one: Daniel, is rpm.hozac.com having problems? >> >> And has anyone taken, or planning on taking, the CentOS 6 plunge? > > Well I'm getting the pieces in place but have some questions. > > The plan: > > 1. Install CentOS 6 from the minimal CD/DVD. > 2. Update to the LV kernel from Daniel's repo. > > The questions: > > 1. The repo only has CentOS 4 and 5 listed. What tricks do I have to > use the repo for CentOS 6? (Sorry Daniel if this is still a work > in progress and I'm getting ahead of the game.) http://rpm.hozac.com/dhozac/rhel/6/vserver/ > 2. Will the *el6* SRPMS work for CentOS 6? Depends on which ones you're talking about. The ones on the above URL, yes. The ones in the 5 repo? No. > 3. And what are the *dhz* packages -- mkinitrd and yum -- for? mkinitrd is to make the 2.6.32 kernel work on RHEL/CentOS 5. The provided mkinitrd doesn't know the correct module names etc. yum has the chroot patch applied which makes it work for building guests. -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson