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 inside and do
'yum install <full list of packages>". The bad thing about that is
(per-distro per-version list of) hard-coded package names and
inability to use packages from "updates" repo since they are
ever-changing (but packages in "base" repo should be OK).
2. Is it possible to have opensuse template metadata? AFAIK opensuse
lacks yum and "you" (YaST Online Updater) should be used instead.
I'm working on that now :-)
OpenSUSE uses rpms and supports yum, but their command line tool is
zypper, gui is YaST. Both YaST and zypper use yum/rpm compatible
repositories.
The problem I've hit is a slight difference in version checking. If
you have a requirement that is EQ and it doesn't include a revision
just a version then zypper accepts any revision yum barfs.
Well I spent the day and a half working on OpenSUSE, what a frustration.
OpenSUSE 11.0 introduced an incompatible compression scheme (LZMA) into
rpm.
OpenSUSE doesn't have separate repositories for i386 and x86_64 so yum
installs packages based on the architecture of the machine it is running
on, not the target. Building an i386 template actually creates an
x86_64 one on an x86_64 HN. This can be overridden using
/etc/rpm/platform but it doesn't respect --installroot.
As a result of the above I have OpenSUSE 10.X templates that mostly work
for both 32 and 64 bit. There are still issues with the init scripts
not running. I think this is due to OpenSUSE's reliance on starting
everything from bootwait, but I haven't spent a lot of time looking into
it. Manually running "service network start" works fine. Also vzctl
stop doesn't work properly. You need to do a vzctl exec <n> halt from
another window to make the CT actually go away. Same thing running
shutdown from within the CT. Once again I haven't spent a bunch of time
investigating. Tools such as zypper work fine within the container.
I'm not sure what to do about 11.X. It is possible to install a 10.3
system and then upgrade it to 11.
I expect OpenSUSE support is a project for someone with more of a need
for OpenSUSE and a lot more patience than I :-)
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