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From: Cedric Veilleux (cedric_at_neopeak.com)
Date: Sat 22 Mar 2003 - 16:53:58 GMT


Hi,

        Gentoo's package management system is ideal to run a vserver. A vserver
"profile" could be created. A profile in gentoo's package management system
is a set of default package that must be installed or not-installed for a
specific architecture. With a vserver profile, we could have portage setup a
valid vserver automatically with no need of the newvserver command.

        A few additional ebuild would be necessary. I've included the vserver-sources
ebuild that installs and patch the source, it is for ctx16.

        Another ebuild is needed for the host system, for the vserver utilities. The
problem is that they do not work well with gentoo in their current state.
Main problem is the newvserver and vserver script that must be modified
slightly I think. Also, unification is rpm centric and I started
experimenting with the "epm" command in gentoo (sys-apps/epm) that tries to
emulate the rpm but works directly with gentoo's native packaging system.

        Having no access to a redhat system with "rpm" command, I don't know how
close "epm" comes to emulate the rpm output and interface.. Here's how it
looks:

# epm -qa
addpatches-0.2
kportage-0.6.1
metalog-0.6-r10
fam-oss-2.6.9-r1
mirrorselect-0.2-r1
gentoolkit-0.1.19-r3
cabextract-0.6
ncompress-4.2.4
rpm-4.0.4-r4
unzip-5.50-r1
zip-2.3-r1
gnupg-1.2.1-r1
freenet-0.5.0.6
mhash-0.8.16
[...]

# epm -ql --dump freenet-0.5.0.6
dir /var
dir /var/freenet
dir /var/freenet/stats
dir /usr
dir /usr/lib
dir /usr/lib/freenet
obj /usr/lib/freenet/freenet.jar a5fc4695d76156acdfc8b935d6c871f2 1046561669
obj /usr/lib/freenet/freenet-ext.jar 9ac68e0b202f0143869e2c44192e7261
1046561669
dir /etc
obj /etc/freenet.conf c97270d05a0ba1d999e58ffdca708fa0 1046561669
dir /etc/init.d
obj /etc/init.d/freenet 24f25cc59216bf29f6312ecc48491c04 1046561669

        As you can see, there is no difference in the file lists between config files
and other files. Gentoo uses CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK for that,
in make.globals and that can be overrided in make.conf

CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf"

Cedric

Le 22 Mars 2003 10:52, vous avez écrit :
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jonathan Sambrook wrote:
> > Is there a Gentoo package maintainer (or is that portage maintainer?)
> > for vserver?
> >
> > <fireresist>I don't know if it's just me, but I perceive an
> > increase in Gentoo users demanding that the rest of the world support
> > 'their' distro which seems to be a horse/cart ordering
> > issue.</fireresist>
>
> Hmm. It seems to me that the number of gentoo users is growing rapidly,
> period. I know within my company that gentoo is becoming more popular.
>
> To me a marriage of vserver and gentoo is a natural. After all, if you're
> running multiple virtual machines on a system, wouldn't it make sense for
> all of the software to be optimized for the hardware platform? That way
> you'd make the most efficient use of the hardware. It makes more sense to
> me than several virtual servers running relatively inefficient Pentium (or
> i386) code on a modern processor...
>
> I wouldn't mind creating an ebuild for vserver, but I have to learn how to
> create an ebuild first. :-) I'll start looking into it this week. Maybe
> I'll figure it out, or maybe someone will beat me to it, but I will give
> it a go.
>
> -John



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