On Sun January 22 2006 05:38, Enrico Scholz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Meier) writes: > > > I'm using Gentoo as a host and also Gentoo as VPSs. If I try to > > vunify/vhashify two VPS, I get: > > > > gs vservers # ln > > -s /etc/vservers/vs01 /etc/vservers/vs01c/apps/vunify/refserver.00 > > > > gs vservers # vserver vs01c unify > > Can not determine packagemanagement style > > failed to determine configfiles > > Does vhashify/vunify really make sense on Gentoo? AFAIK, Gentoo does not > have a packagemanagement and you have to recompile everything (which > will probably produce different checksums). > Gentoo does handle binary package management - do:
emerge --buildpkg whatever (you can set that option in your FEATURES) the 'install' tools accept <binary package>.tbz2 with a --usepkg option. The package is a 'tar --bzip2' with additional meta-data The process will preserve timestamps and etc as well as any tar --bzip2 Mike > When you do a 'make install' from the same source tree, vhashify/vunify will > still not work because most 'make install' do not preserve timestamps. But > because timestamps are used to check whether files are identically resp. are > going into the calculation of the hash value, you will not gain very much > with vhashify/vunify on Gentoo. > > > > Enrico > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
