Re: [vserver] Developer recommendations.

From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders_at_cyber-office.net>
Date: Wed 07 Jul 2010 - 19:16:01 BST
Message-ID: <4C34C461.9080705@cyber-office.net>

On 07/06/2010 08:25 PM, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> I currently use LV hosts and guests based on CentOS 5.x.

First off thanks to all for your replies.

>>
>> This means I either have to learn to build my own kernel RPM or (this is
>> going to sound bad no matter how I put it) trust in others. The trust
>> isn't so much in their work but in their having time to do the work.
>>
>> I figure I should start building my own. This way I get the latest and
>> greatest and it could lead to a LV "distribution."
>>
>> So how do I go about getting the leanest and meanest host? Right now,
>> even if I build from a stripped down install of CentOS there are a pile
>> of "extras".
>
> "Extras"?

Well probably the wrong term. Rather all the dependencies. Yum
requires Python etc.

>> But I'd still like to build CentOS guests (yum, etc.) to make the
>> maintenance/upkeep easier on others.
>>
>> They feel like contradictory goals.
>
> What are the goals, exactly?

A stripped down host but CentOS guests.

>> So my question for now: How do the developers build their systems?
>
> Personally, I use CentOS 5 almost exclusively, with two Debian systems
> sprinkled in there.

OK. I like that (and I knew you used CentOS.)

Do you build, for your own use, kernel, yum, and util-vserver RPMs?
Even if not where do I find the spec files or src RPMs that you use for
the yum repo? (And I feel a big twinge of guilt since I think I went
through something similar to this a year of so ago then fell down on
getting the info on the wiki.) 8-(

Rod

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Received on Wed Jul 7 19:16:48 2010
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