package: fai version: 3.0 Hi,
a dedicated build method for fai-enabled vservers now exists in vservers-svn: http://svn.linux-vserver.org/viewvc.py/util-vserver/trunk/scripts/vserver-build.fai?view=markup and will hopefully released in util-vserver .211 The needed changes in fai have been send to the mailinglist but not to the BTS, they are here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai%40rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg03756.html Currently the build method in vserver has the following problems: - obsolete old path for FAI_CONFIGDIR and FAI_NFSROOT as default - relying on sams branch, doesnt work with fai 3.0 (I have no idea whats exactly needed to make it work...) - relying on the fai nfsroot to exist. I very often deploy vservers with fai without using a nfsroot and just using softupdate. So this is kind of a regression. - possible more ;) Sam, I think you could greatly help if you could describe what changes are _really_ needed in fai to make vserver-build.fai work... regards, Holger Log from the discussion on #vserver, which made me notice this: <daniel_hozac> mugwump: i've committed the fai to the svn now with a few fixes (check for nfsroot, removing the directories in killprocs, probably something else i forgot). <-- phreak`` has quit (Quit: leaving) --> phreak`` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has joined #vserver <h01ger> daniel_hozac, whats fai in this context? <daniel_hozac> h01ger: Debian's fully automatic installation, or whatever it's called :) --- _[PUPPETS]Gonzo is now known as [PUPPETS]Gonzo <h01ger> daniel_hozac, interesting. i'm an active fai developer :) so what code did you commit to vservers (?) svn? <h01ger> and mugwump used to hang around in #fai too :) <h01ger> and i maintain my vservers with fai :) <meandtheshell> h01ger: http://svn.linux-vserver.org/viewvc.py/util-vserver/ :) <h01ger> daniel_hozac, and where there exactly? which path? <daniel_hozac> it's a fai build method. <daniel_hozac> trunk/scripts/vserver-build.fai <daniel_hozac> https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?5058 <daniel_hozac> h01ger: opinions appreciated :) <h01ger> FAI_NFSROOT and FAI_CONFIGDIR use hardcoded and deprecated paths (?) <h01ger> mugwump, daniel_hozac: have you tested this with fai 3.0, released sometime last week? <h01ger> ah, nor hardcoded <daniel_hozac> i haven't tested it at all. <h01ger> each time i see /usr/local in FAI_NFSROOT||_CONFIGDIR I get a heart-attack. i reported this stupid bug in 2003 and it was fixed last month. after three years of nagging. <daniel_hozac> hehe. <h01ger> thats why first screamed and then read further. they are at least not hardcoded... <h01ger> also this looks suspicious to me: <h01ger> echo "*** Looks like you don't have the patched FAI." <h01ger> echo "*** get it from svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/people/mugwump/vserver" <daniel_hozac> how so? <h01ger> cause it should work with the unpatched fai?! <daniel_hozac> should it? would you be able to try? * daniel_hozac doesn't have any Debian hosts available to him. <daniel_hozac> i have no idea what mugwump's fai changes from vanilla. * h01ger neither. but i just check, the test fails with fai_3.0 <h01ger> checked <daniel_hozac> right, i suppose that's the idea. <daniel_hozac> but if that was commented, would it work? <daniel_hozac> it being the build method. <h01ger> i have no idea, as i dont know what feature mugwump added <h01ger> also i'm unhappy about the hardcoded tmpfs mounting for the vserver - i usually disable this for my vservers (as 16mb /tmp is way to little) <daniel_hozac> 19:58 < h01ger> cause it should work with the unpatched fai?! <daniel_hozac> that is just temporary for the build though. <daniel_hozac> surely a 64 MiB /tmp should suffice for building a guest? <h01ger> daniel_hozac, yes. but its hard to say if it will work, if i dont know what changes mugwump has in his branch. <h01ger> daniel_hozac, for building thats fine. didnt see that <h01ger> mugwump, i also dislike that this needs a setup fai nfsroot. i heavily use fai softupdate and i often dont even have a nfsroot... <daniel_hozac> h01ger: so what would you change? :) <h01ger> daniel_hozac, so this build method will show up in vserver-utils one day? <daniel_hozac> one day very soon. <daniel_hozac> i'd really want to release 0.30.211 next week. <h01ger> daniel_hozac, i dont know why its needed. atm i'm looking into replacing the custom fai-live-cd build scripts (which also rely on the nfsroot) with the (new) live-package from debian, which is a generic infrastructure to build live cds. and i promised to look at the munin-vserver plugins today. so i wont look much further into vserver-build.fai ;-) <daniel_hozac> h01ger: ok, so how would you build guests with fai? <h01ger> with the debootstrap method. then i just run "fai softupdate" and be done <h01ger> i have a script for this, which prepares the vserver a tiny bit after building, so i agree, a build-method makes sense. but the current implementation looks like quite a hack to me :-/ <daniel_hozac> i do kind of agree :) <h01ger> and mugwump also only send a mail to the fai list and didnt report it as a bug to the bts. thats probably why the patch has been overseen... <h01ger> filing a bug now.. <h01ger> daniel_hozac, do you mind if i attach this log to the bugreport i'm writing? <daniel_hozac> not at all, it's already public on irc.13thfloor.at ;)
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