Roberto C.Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:55:03AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Why the hell do you want to remove rpmstrap? We need it! If nobody wants >> to maintain it, then we do... >> > Have you tried to use it? I've tried using it several times over the > last couple of years to install rpm-based Xen guests and/or chroots. It > *never* worked. Not once. > > Regards, > > -Roberto
Hi, We are using it (with some patches for making it working with amd64) in more than 15 servers in production, and it ALWAYS work after it worked once! The big problem is that the scripts list of RPM for setting-up the distro are outdated, so it fails. Try to checkout this packages that I wrote: ftp://ftp.gplhost.sg/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/dtc-xen-os-centos42-i386_4.2-1_i386.deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.sg/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/dtc-xen-os-centos42-amd64_4.2-1_amd64.deb These contains: 1/ a list of RPM files that will be setup in /usr/share/dtc-xen-os/centos42 2/ a centos42 script If you use the 2, it's going to work 100% of the time (but of course, you will need an upgrade after the setup). I'm aware that it's going to be quite hard to have the above package in Debian, but that doesn't mater. I do need the rpmstrap package anyway, which DOES work. Thomas Goirand
