[Debian] Re: debian kernels at download.openvz.org

Ola Lundqvist ola at opalsys.net
Fri Apr 13 04:05:51 EDT 2007


Hi Thorsten

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:09:15AM +0200, Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote:
> Hi Ola,
> 
> an urgent info about your precompiled kernel packages, when upgrading, 
> this error will occurs:
> 
> [...]
> You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.6.18-openvz-686) 
> However, the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-openvz-686/kernel still exists.
> If this directory belongs to a previous linux-image-2.6.18-openvz-686 
> package, and if you have deselected some modules, or installed 
> standalone modules packages, this could be bad. 

Yes I know. The plan is to start using that now when Debian is
actually released.

> 
> [...]
> 
> All available package has no extra version-number to differ, an example 
> for 686er kernel flavour given, but affected all packages!
> 
> (1) linux-image-2.6.18-openvz-686_028.18-2.6.18-11-1_i386.deb
> (2) linux-image-2.6.18-openvz-686_028.18.1-2.6.18-12-1_i386.deb
> ...
> (3) linux-image-2.6.18-openvz-686_028.28.1-2.6.18-12-1_i386.deb
> (\_ when building the next package with the same append-to-version)
> 
> -> kernel modules dir for this flavour is 
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-openvz-686/ ; install the package by overwrite 
> existing kernels-images and kernel-modules, you know that ?!

Yes.

> I prefer to add a version number depends on OpenVZ patch-ID for this 
> linux-kernel 028stab028.1 -> 028 and update append-to-version to 
> -openvz-686-028 or -openvz-028-686.

It is my plan, now when Debian is actually released as stable.

> This give all Debian OpenVZ users a possible solution detect the OpenVZ 
> patch, by uname -r.
> 
> Btw: Debian flavour of 686-bigmem for 4-64G RAM machines is missing ?
> Why not using the offical OpenVZ kernel-configs for building kernel 
> packages ?

There are several reasons:
1) I actually use the official kernel configs, for the versions compiled,
   but they need to be changed some to acutally be able to build and
   support openvz.
2) I have tried to get this into the Debian kernel mainstream but I have
   still not got a single response from the Debian kernel team.
3) I have not support for all variants of the kernel as it takes
   too much time for me to build. When I have got this patch into the
   main Debian build package it will be solved.

Best regards,

// Ola

> Regards,
> Thorsten
> 

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