Also see my comments below.
Robert Nelson wrote:
Is anyone actively working on vzpkg?
I've been rewriting it to eliminate the dependence on yum and rpm, so
that it also works for Debian and hopefully some day Gentoo. This
also eliminates the requirement for vzyum, vzrpm, vzrpm43 and
vzrpm44. vzpkgadd, vzpkgrm, vzpkgls and vzpkgcache would just do the
right thing. This would also fix the incompatibilities between
working with packages from the HN and from within the VE.
That sounds interesting, do you have a git repo or something I can take
a look at?
So, how are you solving the problem of different RPMDB versions? You
know, if you have used rpm-4.2 to create/manage an RPM database, the
moment you use rpm-4.3 on it will become incompatible with rpm-4.2. The
only way to fix that would be to use only specified RPM version.
We can definitely use rpm from inside a VE only, but then another
problem of duplicate downloads arises.
Is this something that you would like to incorporate into the product?
One of the things I noticed was that there was a lot of duplication in
scripts and data files. This is because everything is stored in an
OS/Version/Platform/Config directory, even though there may not be any
difference between the corresponding files between platforms or even
Versions.
I have a change which is backwards-compatible which allows config
directories anywhere in the template tree. Files lower in the tree
override any specified higher in the tree.
For example, instead of this directory structure:
/vz/template
centos
4
i386
config
minimal.list
yum.conf
...
x86_64
config
minimal.list
yum.conf
...
You would have:
/vz/template
centos
config
minimal.list
4
i386
config
yum.conf
...
This eliminates a lot of duplicate work and is less error prone.
Will the minimal.conf in /vz/template/centos/5/i386/config/minimal.list
be an addition to, or a replacement for
/vz/template/centos/config/minimal.list?
In case it's addition, say you have a package called httpd in
/vz/template/centos/config/minimal.list. What if in CentOS 6 we don't
want package with that name, but want something called httpd3 instead? I
mean, we can definitely add more packages, but how can we "remove" packages?
In case it's a replacement, I doubt that "generic" file will work --
every major version of a given distro have some changes in the minimal.list.
I can provide a diff of this change against the current git if you are
interested.
If there is interest in any of this work please let me know the
process for getting the changes reviewed and incorporated into the
product.
I put users@ to cc: in order to bring some more attention to the topic.
I am definitely interested so let's discuss it further (for now my
biggest concern is rpmdb compatibility problem described above).
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