Re: [vserver] gentoo and baselayout 2

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Thu 23 Aug 2007 - 13:59:09 BST
Message-ID: <56604.192.168.101.6.1187873949.squirrel@intranet>

Ed W wrote:
> Christian Affolter wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>> I'm building a new server and will be shuffling over some older vserver
>>> images, plus building some new images.
>>> Has anyone experimented with baselayout-2 under vserver and if so how
>>> does it all work out?
>>>
>> Yes I'm successfully using gentoo vservers with baselayout-2. Apart from
>> some cosmetic startup error messages, it seems to work fine.
>>
>
> Thanks Chris
>
> Can you comment on some breakages in the startup scripts when using
> baselayout-2 in the host system. I get the following error on bootup:
>
> /usr/lib/util-vserver/functions: line 778: `pkgmgmt.guessStyle': not a
> valid identifier
>
> I haven't debugged further yet, but I believe this is because there has
> been some changes to the shell, but I can't immediately see why this
> isn't working... (/bin/sh is still a symlink to bash..?)
>
> Where to log a bug? What's the simplest way to temporarily workaround
> this? Grateful for any pointers

Recent 0.30.214 snapshots should work fine, see e.g.
http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/t/uv-testing/util-vserver-0.30.214-pre2590.tar.bz2

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Received on Thu Aug 23 13:59:38 2007
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