Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In "old" vzpk

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In "old" vzpkg, we use external rpm

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: (My own solution to this is to have a list of URLs to a few packages comprising a minimal system in which rpm could work, and then download/unpack (using rpm2cpio | cpio -id) those into a newly created empty container. When we can run rpm --initdb insi

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-10 Thread Robert Nelson
Kir Kolyshkin wrote: A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In "old" vzpkg, we use external rpm/yum (vzrpm and vzyum

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In "old" vzpkg, we use external rpm/yum (vzrpm and vzyum) to do that. Since yo

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Nelson
Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote: Hello Robert, i've built a debian vzpkg2 package, but need the source of pkg-cacher as well, but cannot be download from http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/projects/pkg_cacher. So please fix, that the packge depends are working, Oops, sorry about that. Fixed n

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-06 Thread Thorsten Schifferdecker
Hello Robert, i've built a debian vzpkg2 package, but need the source of pkg-cacher as well, but cannot be download from http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/projects/pkg_cacher. So please fix, that the packge depends are working, Thanks and by, Thorsten -- Thorsten Schifferdecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Nelson
Roberto Mello wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a preliminary version of the new vzpkg utilities ready for testing. These new tools support creating templates for 32 and 64 bit flavours of the following: Centos 4 and 5, Fedora 7, 8 and

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a preliminary version of the new vzpkg utilities ready for testing. > > These new tools support creating templates for 32 and 64 bit flavours of the > following: > Centos 4 and 5, > Fedora 7, 8 and 9, > Debian S

[Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Nelson
I have a preliminary version of the new vzpkg utilities ready for testing. These new tools support creating templates for 32 and 64 bit flavours of the following: Centos 4 and 5, Fedora 7, 8 and 9, Debian Sarge and Etch, Ubuntu Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy. They are extensible and will