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 Sarge and Etch, > Ubuntu Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy. > > They are extensible and will eventually support OpenSUSE and Gentoo.
Fantastic! Thanks for doing this and for sharing. Will definitely be taking a look at this. > In addition, I've created pkg-cacher, a transparent caching proxy daemon > optimized for Debian and RPM packages. It is based on apt-cacher version > 1.6.4 available with Debian. This version has been modified to understand > RedHat RPM repositiories. It also adds support for the HTTP Range header > and deals correctly with files which have the same name but different > content on different distributions or in some cases different versions of > the same distribution. In my experience I've found that just setting up Squid and telling my different machines to use the proxy (Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.hostname:3128/";) has been the best pacakge caching solution. Works accross different packaging systems too. > In order to make installation easy I've setup repositories for 32 and 64 bit > versions of CentOS 4, 5 and Fedora 7, 8 and 9. I'll be producing packages > for Debian and Ubuntu as HN later. I can help with Debian packages if you need. Roberto -- http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users