[Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
The builds using rsync are going well but this has created a bit of a problem. Typically I build using yum as the method. This creates all the necessary files in /etc/vservers/guest/apps. Using rsync doesn't. Is there a command/incantation to convert a vserver guest to another

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Chuck
On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:55, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: when i copy a template for a new server i find the easiest thing is simply copy an existing vserver in /etc over to the new name and edit a couple files and its done The builds using rsync are going well but this has created a bit

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Chuck
On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:55, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: if i use vserver build with its rsync options it makes the /etc/vserver/guest directory for me just like any other build using vserver. are you using rsync by itself? maybe thats why. the vserver application automatically makes the

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:55, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: if i use vserver build with its rsync options it makes the /etc/vserver/guest directory for me just like any other build using vserver. are you using rsync by itself? maybe thats why. the vserver application

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Chuck
On Thursday 12 July 2007 14:50, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: ahh ok. heh i know enough about yum to be dangerous so i only use it in the few centos guests we have and then just do yum update :) everything else we have is gentoo based. as soon as the package we use that requires centos/rh/debian

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: The builds using rsync are going well but this has created a bit of a problem. Typically I build using yum as the method. This creates all the necessary files in /etc/vservers/guest/apps. Using rsync doesn't. Is there a command/incantation to convert a vserver

Re: [Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-07-12 Thread Matt Paine
So the big question is which (preferably YUM-able) distribution should I use for the host? I'm currently thinking CentOS 5 as it has an end-of-life in about 5 years. I hope to be retired by then. :-) Plus I believe I read that it is actually supported in Daniel's repository. Well I was