On Sunday 22 January 2006 15:46, Wilhelm Meier wrote: > Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2006 12:38 schrieb Enrico Scholz: > > [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). > > Yes, but Gentoo has package-management - the portage system. > > > 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. > > You have to use binary packages, then you will gain the same amount as with > other distributions. And you have to compile the things only once. This is > o.k. since the compiler-flags won't change from Vserver to VServer. The > only issue might be with the portage-use-flags.
well, if you want unification you probably use the same use flags among unified guests anyway... > > > Enrico _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
