Re: [vserver] The quest goes on.

Ed W wrote:
>
>> Now on to the real reason for this message. Going over the web site I
>> (re)found many HOWTOs for different host and guest combinations. The
>> one I didn't find was a Redhat/CentOS/Fedora guest via the "yum'
>> method on a Gentoo host. I don't currently have a play/practice
>> system available to just try it. I'm pretty sure this is possible if
>> yum can be installed on Gentoo. Anyone given this a whirl?
>>
>>
>
> Yum is in the gentoo repo, but no idea if it does anything or works... I
> would have thought getting the dependency database (or whatever it's
> called) would be the issue?
>
> That said - why on earth would you want to..?

Not necessarily me. If a customer wants a CentOS or Debian guest and
there is a Gentoo host can it be done. And beside I'm just trying to
have answers in case there is a question.

Rod

-- 
> If you are savvy enough to run Gentoo on your host then I can't really 
> see why you would ever deviate from that on the guests?  RPM based 
> distros are basically just a subset of gentoo...  ;-)
> 
> Ed W