> ----- "John Drescher" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have modified the metro code (look at the drescherjm fork of metro) >> a little to generate VEs for DNS servers and mail servers and I plan >> to add samba PDCs as well so that in 5 minutes after some failure I >> can add a brand new VE to my network to replace either a hardware >> server or an other virtual server. And I actually needed that last >> week to replace both dns servers and a mail server because of a >> software failure in a gentoo xen box. > > Any chance you'd be interested in the vzpkg2 and pkg-cacher project? It > would be nice if Gentoo support could be added to it. > > 1) Software packaging - It would be nice if the vzpkg2 and pkg-cacher apps > were easily installable on Gentoo so you could build the various OS Templates > that metadata packages are available for > I do not have any time for that. Sorry. > > 2) Gentoo build - If metro is something that could be ported to rpm and deb > distros, make it an option dep for vzpkg2 and add metadata packages for > Gentoo so that a Gentoo OS Template could easily be built on the supported > host node distros >
Metro is a stage3 build tool created by Daniel Robbins (who created gentoo in the first place). I believe he talks about adding support for other distributions but I am not sure how much work that would be. Here is some more info on metro: http://wiki.github.com/funtoo/metro John _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
