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From: Vlad (vlad_at_vlad.net)
Date: Sun 30 Jun 2002 - 15:39:37 BST


So how do you perform updates on the vserver? Do you just boot up the root
server with a cd and upgrade the distribution? Does that break the
vservers or anything?

-Vlad

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Jacques Gelinas wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:13:20 -0500, Vlad wrote
> >
> > I recall someone saying something about vserver (redhat) update scripts
> > that would update all the files on the vserver (or create a vserver)
> > directly from redhat cd's. Does anybody still maintain this and
> > furthermore, has anybody used it at all to make upgrades to their systems?
> > I have both types of vservers (with links to the root server and separate
> > fs copies) so I am wondering if anybody has encountered any problems
> > before I go ahead and start destroying stuff.
>
> The script to install directly from a CD is in /usr/lib/vserver. Currently
> there is one to install from a rh7.2 CD.
>
> I will release a new version with support for 7.3. Further, the newvserver
> utility will offer the ability to install from a CD directly in the menu and
> will use these script directly (note this stuff is already done, just not released
> yet).
>
> For the upgrade part, no script are available yet. Performing the upgrade generally
> involve the following steps
>
> -Doing rework in distribution dependant configuration file, as needed. In
> general, this does not affect a vserver since this stuff applies to
> low level configuration.
>
> -Handling deprecated packages. For example, a package foo may evolve in
> two packages: foo-client and foo-server. RPM can't handle this kind of relation
> (the package has a new name). So in that case, the offending package must
> be removed and then the upgrade performed.
>
> -Computing the new dependencies and potentially adding new packages
> to solve it.
>
> I have written a module to handle that and I am testing it here. The cool thing
> about vservers is that you can test your upgrade over and over without rebooting
> or loosing anything. You simply do
>
> -create a new test vserver out of a production one: 1 minute
> -assign a new IP to it
> -perform the upgrade
> -test it
> -erase it and try again.
>
> In general, the original production vserver should just stay there in case the upgrade
> has some hidden side effect. You archive it and delete it few week later.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Jacques Gelinas <jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
> vserver: run general purpose virtual servers on one box, full speed!
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc
>


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