On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:24, Michael Stowe wrote: > All: > I'm a recent convert to UML for VDS/PS hosting and have talked with Jeff > about providing RPMs of UML kernels.
> I'd like to ask for input on a standardized location for the kernel and > modules to be installed to as well as any patches you would like to see > included in releases. I believe that probably Debian .deb packages are also a good place to look at. However, about SuSE RPMs, I think that installing one RPM both on the guest and on the host is a waste. IMHO you need to have two RPMs: a) one to install on the guest - it should normally provide modules only. Btw, you'd like to have modules also in .tgz format (for installation on non-RPM guest distros). It can be installed on the host, too. b) one to install on the host - containing only the guest kernel. Which should not at all go in /boot - SuSE RPMs are really wrong in this. The only reason they work so, likely, is to reuse transparently mkinitrd. To cater for a so-called "simple" install, you can have a dummy "user-mode-linux" package depending on both packages and on uml-utilities. I do not believe very useful installing modules on the host - yes, they want to use initrd, which I never do. > I plan on providing RPMs for Fedora/CentOS 3.x and 4.x. > Any comments are appriciated! -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
