Re: [Vserver] Unifying Gentoo Guests

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun 26 Feb 2006 - 23:31:44 GMT
Message-ID: <20060226233144.GB21018@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:04:31AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Oliver Welter wrote:
> >>>eergh - it seems that vunify does not support gentoo guest. Anyone
> >>>here can help me out ?
> >>
> >>Implementing the 'get-conffiles' operation for the 'gentoo' case in
> >>'scripts/vpkg' should help. I do not know gentoo enough to develop it
> >>myself.
> >
> >As gentoo hast no binary packages and the result of compilation depends
> >on LOTS of flags I see no way to make this...
>
> My unify-dirs script is completely ambivalent to the packaging system
> in use by the installed systems. So long as the files have the same
> contents, permissions, ownership and relative location, they will be
> unified. However it does currently rely on a 'legacy' ioctl.

hmm .. so it uses legacy ioctls, but is intended
for development releases (with CoW LB) I presume,
as you would not want to unify everything without
that ...

> http://vserver.utsl.gen.nz/scripts/unify-dirs
>
> (to be included with non-legacy support in Linux::VServer)

I guess vhashify is doing similar and probably
much better, as it doesn't care about the file
location (i.e. the hash value is sufficient)

best,
Herbert

> Sam.
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