Am Donnerstag, den 25.01.2007, 21:31 +0100 schrieb Daniel de Kok:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:54:13 +0100 Nils Toedtmann centos-mail@nils.toedtmann.net wrote:
glibc and db4 have to be patched/rebuilt because of NPTL incompatibilities.
Upstream is working on domainU support for their 4 branch, so that will probably not be a problem in the future.
Great news! (Who is "upstream" - RedHat? Do they backport the nptl-patches from RHEL5?)
Sure (i hope i know what you mean with "role"). Could be done by empty meta-packages like ubuntu's "{,k,x}ubuntu-desktop".
I like the approach that is taken with FC6 live CD's, they use some meta packages that pull in all dependencies for a "role".
Me too, it's the same approach as ubuntu's. It's more appropriate than the "groupinstall" method.
[...] The live CD scripts, as-is don't work on CentOS 4. But when I looked into it the required changes were fairly trivial (sorry, I don't have patches for the work I had done).
What are the advantages over virt-install (part of virt-manager) you mentioned in the other post?
Don't forget all those not using CentOS - yet!
I'd say, develop the build framework for C4 and possibly C3, and retrofit it to C5 if it works. [...]
Isn't that breaking a fly on the wheel? I just supposed some officially released, polished sample-images running on as many VMMs and Host-OSes as possible. That could be done by a shell script of a few dozens lines or by calling virt-install with a nice kickstart.
Just my 2ct, /nils.