[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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