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 at 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.