[Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

[Robert Nelson]

Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> i've built a debian vzpkg2 package, but need the source of pkg-cacher as
> well, but cannot be download from
> http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/projects/pkg_cacher.
>
> So please fix, that the packge depends are working,
>
>   

Oops, sorry about that.  Fixed now.

> Thanks and by,
>  Thorsten
> --
> Thorsten Schifferdecker
> tsd at debian.systs.org
>
> Am Sa, 6.09.2008, 05:27, schrieb Robert Nelson:
>   
>> I have a preliminary version of the new vzenpkg utilities ready for
>>     
> testing.
>   
>> These new tools support creating templates for 32 and 64 bit flavours of
>> the following:
>>     Centos 4 and 5,
>>     Fedora 7, 8 and 9,
>>     Debian Sarge and Etch,
>>     Ubuntu Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy.
>>
>> They are extensible and will eventually support OpenSUSE and Gentoo.
>>
>> In addition, I've created pkg-cacher, a transparent caching proxy daemon
>> optimized for Debian and RPM packages.  It is based on apt-cacher
>> version 1.6.4 available with Debian.  This version has been modified to
>> understand RedHat RPM repositiories.  It also adds support for the HTTP
>> Range header and deals correctly with files which have the same name but
>> different content on different distributions or in some cases different
>> versions of the same distribution.
>>
>> The pkg-cacher source is available on
>> http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/projects/pkg_cacher.
>>
>> The source for the new vzpkg and templates is available on
>> git.opensource-sw.net.  You can browse the source using the url
>> http://git.opensource-sw.net/.  In order to clone the updated source use
>> the command "git clone http://git.opensource-sw.net/git/vzpkg".  The
>> templates are available using "git clone
>> http://git.opensource-sw.net/git/vztmpl".
>>
>> In order to make installation easy I've setup repositories for 32 and 64
>> bit versions of CentOS 4, 5 and Fedora 7, 8 and 9.  I'll be producing
>> packages for Debian and Ubuntu as HN later.
>>
>> Please let me know of any issues or suggestions.
>>
>> Step by step installation instructions are below:
>>
>> Existing install)
>>     Backup your existing /vz/template directory
>>     Uninstall vzpkg and any vztmpl-* packages.
>>
>> New install)
>>     wget http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d
>>     Enable appropriate OpenVZ kernel
>>
>>     yum install vzctl
>>     service vz start
>>
>>     echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>
>> For CentOS:
>>     wget http://repo.opensource-sw.net/ossw_centos.repo -P
>> /etc/yum.repos.d
>>
>> For Fedora:
>>     wget http://repo.opensource-sw.net/ossw_fedora.repo -P
>> /etc/yum.repos.d
>>
>> yum install vzpkg2 vztmpl2-centos vztmpl2-fedora vztmpl2-debian
>> vztmpl2-ubuntu
>> yum install pkg-cacher
>>
>> Add the following to /etc/vz/vz.conf
>>
>> #
>> # Replace hostname with the IP address or name of the server running
>> pkg-cacher.
>> # Don't use localhost, it must be a name resolvable from within the
>> container.
>> VZPKG_CACHE_HOST=hostname:3142
>> #
>> # Network information for updating templates for Debian, Ubuntu
>> # and other distributions that need network access.
>> #
>> # Adjust these to suit your network.
>> #
>> # Temporary static IP address used by the container while updating the
>> # cached template.
>> VZPKG_IPADDR=192.168.1.100
>> #
>> # Default domain suffix to append to host names that aren't fully
>> qualified.
>> VZPKG_SEARCH=example.com
>> #
>> # List of DNS servers
>> VZPKG_DNS=192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3
>> #
>>
>> cd /etc/vz/dists
>> cp fedora-8.conf fedora-9.conf
>>
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