[Announce] Updates for OS templates

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Thu Dec 15 12:18:39 EST 2005


We have just released updates for all existing OS templates.

Template metadata and precreated templates are updated.
Yum repository caches were also updated.

If you use template metadata (vztmpl-* rpms), please download
and install the latest versions of it (using rpm -Uhv command).
Then, you need to run vzpkgcache to update the template cache.
To actually fix bug #73 (see below), you need to run vzpkgcache -f
(it takes a bit longer to run).

If you use precreated templates, consider updating them to
the latest versions available from download.openvz.org.

Note that you do *not* need to download yum repo cache - this is
just for the new users.

The following bugs were fixed:
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* Bug #73, http://bugzilla.openvz.org/73
* crond is absent in templates; anacron is present
* Affects: fedora-core-3, fedora-core-4, centos-4.
Previous OS template releases contained anacron in default set of packages.
Anacron is rarely needed in a VPS, so it was removed.
Previous OS template releases were lacking a cron daemon, so
vixie-cron was added to default set.

* Bug #74, http://bugzilla.openvz.org/74
* dummy should provide kernel-drm
* Affects: fedora-core-3, fedora-core-4, centos-4.
People who tried to install xorg-x11 and vnc-server packages
noticed it leads to kernel rpm installed into a VPS. This
happens because xorg-x11 requires kernel-drm.
Although that makes no harm, kernel is not needed inside
a VPS. So 'provides: kernel-drm' was added into a dummy
package to fix that.

* Bug #77, http://bugzilla.openvz.org/77
* centos URLs changed
* Affects: centos-4.
CentOS 4 yum repository was available from beta.centos.org,
now it is not there, so vzyum and vzpkgcache fails to work.

* Bug #78, http://bugzilla.openvz.org/78
* dummy package is installed, not upgraded
* Affects: fedora-core-3, fedora-core-4, centos-4.
Because dummy provides kernel, yum thinks it
needs to be installed, not upgraded, even if old
version exists, thus resulting in two or more
versions of dummy installed.



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