Hi Ben and Pavel Thanks a lot. Then I think I know the way forward. We will create a repository (either on debian.net or keep the one on openvz.org) and put the kernels there. I will document this in the vzctl and vzquota packages to give further instructions.
Pavel, do this sounds good to you. Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 05:19:40AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 18:23 +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > [...] > > > My offer of help in setting up an OpenVZ APT repository still stands. > > > > I thank a lot for that offer. Where would we have that repository in that > > case? The openvz project have a (debarchiver based) repository at > > http://ftp.openvz.org/debian. It is only for etch but can easily be changed > > to include later versions. It was set up for how it was at the time when > > there were no Debian maintained kernels with openvz patches. > > > > The best (from an user trust point of view I guess) would be that we have > > the repository somewhere on the debian machines, but there is no problem to > > keep having a repository in the openvz ftp. > > It probably could not be hosted by Debian, but as a DD you should be > able to allocate a domain under debian.net for this purpose. > > > I have no problem to help you with the maintenance of such a > > repository (I guess). > > I am only offering to help you and the OpenVZ project get started with > this. If no-one is prepared to be a primary maintainer for such a > repository then this surely isn't going to work. > > > The repository would most likely include the "alienized" rhel6 versions > > of the kernel. I guess such packages can not be included in the main > > repository. Or would that be an option? > > No, they would not comply with Debian packaging policy or have security > support from Debian. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
