[Devel] vzpkg

[Robert Nelson]

Is anyone actively working on vzpkg?

I've been rewriting it to eliminate the dependence on yum and rpm, so 
that it also works for Debian and hopefully some day Gentoo.  This also 
eliminates the requirement for vzyum, vzrpm, vzrpm43 and vzrpm44.  
vzpkgadd, vzpkgrm, vzpkgls and vzpkgcache would just do the right 
thing.  This would also fix the incompatibilities between working with 
packages from the HN and from within the VE.

Is this something that you would like to incorporate into the product?

One of the things I noticed was that there was a lot of duplication in 
scripts and data files.  This is because everything is stored in an 
OS/Version/Platform/Config directory, even though there may not be any 
difference between the corresponding files between platforms or even 
Versions.

I have a change which is backwards-compatible which allows config 
directories anywhere in the template tree.  Files lower in the tree 
override any specified higher in the tree.

For example, instead of this directory structure:

    /vz/template
       centos
          4
             i386
                config
                    minimal.list
                    yum.conf
                    ...
             x86_64
                config
                    minimal.list
                    yum.conf
                    ...

You would have:

    /vz/template
       centos
          config
             minimal.list
          4
             i386
                config
                   yum.conf
                   ...

This eliminates a lot of duplicate work and is less error prone.

I can provide a diff of this change against the current git if you are 
interested.

If there is interest in any of this work please let me know the process 
for getting the changes reviewed and incorporated into the product.

Thanks,