Re: Debian Repository Question

This is a great HowTo, tried it and works. Will be using this with my customers now because the snapshot.debian.net-way is giving away debian stability/security.

Thank you!

Ding Honghui wrote:
The standard way to create OpenVZ template in debian is use debootstrap[1]

If you run other tools such like EZ-Templates, As you said, some package
maybe missing when you create template because the offical debian
sources maybe changed in days. I guess you are looking for something
like snapshot.debian.org. It keeps all package in old days for you. Any
way, I think the method in [1] is better for security reason.

[1] http://wiki.openvz.org/Debian_template_creation

Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:12:16PM +0100, gooldi wrote:

This is my first time asking stuff on a mailinglist and I am amazed at the speed of the replies :) thanks!
With so many subscribers ... ;)

We are using OpenVZ for virtualization which uses EZ-Templates to create OS-Template-Caches (ie Debian). These templates are metapackages which depend on packages in the official repositories. Our customers have the problem, when migrating their system and rebuilding the template-cache that it doesn't work when the packages aren't in the repo anymore.

The easiest solution to the problem is updating the EZ-templates.
[Disclaimer: I am not a Debian Developer and never built a package]

I think you need to define your dependencies like "package >= 1.2.3" and not "package = 1.2.3", this would make your metapackages more flexible, if this is what you want to achieve. I also think your question is better suited on the 'mentors' mailing lists, which deals with packaging questions, but please provide more and specific details.

Regards,
Andrei



--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: the best Linux for me
    ... I've ben using debian on my desktop for about 8 years, ... What's Debian's package / distro system called? ... cl-clx-sbcl - An X11 Common Lisp client library for SBCL ... You can also see how out of date my unstable install ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: what version?
    ... > handling of RedHat package management had been jumbled by an architect who ... Debian, Gentoo, etc. ... As I mentioned earlier, Debian-compatible installation media (including ... the stable-branch archive, because he felt it was in particularly good ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is prematurewithbuggy 6.3
    ... If the new php package works fine on your build box, ... For most of the ports this works, ... Even debian has no plus point there (at least in our environment at ... I've had a disk down of course it was in gmirror and the situation ...
    (freebsd-stable)
  • Re: When stability is pointless
    ... debian includes the correct version of the documentation. ... installing a package should result in that package working ... of the reasons I switched to Ubuntu was to minimise the gap between a ... unstable/sid: frequently updated from upstream, ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?
    ... "Le bottin des jeux Linux" speaks about 800 Linux games and i hope that's growing. ... I start with Debian, then test Mandrake because it seem's at this time very complicated. ... I think graphics interface for installation is a good thing: you have make a good job! ... I use Debian Sid and I have experiment a lot of problem some years ago because i install too recent package on Sid which are not well tested. ...
    (Debian-User)