Hi On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:48:07PM +0100, Konstantin Seiler wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:31, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Hi Konstantin > > > The new Kernel just went up and seems to be running fine. > > You are aware that there are precompiled kernels available? Just > > want to check why you want a special version of the kernel. > > Well, there is no openVZ-kernel in Debian that I'm aware of. If there was > one, > I would prefer that. So the second best option is to use kernel-package to > built my custom kernels whenever necessary.
I understand. In the readme (at the bottom) I refer to http://download.openvz.org/kernel/debian where my built kernels are. Just for your information. > To me it's out of question to install a kernel in a way that's not handled by > dpkg. Kernel-package just handles many things too nicely. I fully understand that. > Another reason against a non-debian-precompiled kernel is that the system I'm > setting up is supposed to run for quite a long time on etch. So we don't want > the openVZ-project to move on to newer kernel-versions that might be > incompatible to some parts of etch (for whatever reason). I had trouble with We plan to support etch for the entire life-time of etch. > later versions in the past after using a vanilla-kernel in another project. > My hope is that the etch-sources continue to get patches from security for > quite a while, so we never run out of compatible kernels. It will be so. It is the plan for now at least. Regards, // Ola > > Cheers, > Konstantin > -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://opalsys.net/ 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]
