[Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Robert Nelson wrote:
> Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
>> A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting)
>>
>> 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, 
>> to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their 
>> deps) inside the VE. In "old" vzpkg, we use external rpm/yum (vzrpm 
>> and vzyum) to do that. Since you are not relying on that anymore, how 
>> do you perform an initial installation of rpm/yum/their dependencies 
>> in a newly created VE?
>>
>
> For creating the cache I use the standard yum/rpm on the HN.  Once a 
> CT is created the yum/rpm installed in it is used.
Hmm. Here comes a problem: try to create CentOS 4 (which uses rpm-4.3) 
template on a host system running CentOS 5 (rpm-4.4).

Not really sure how to deal with that in a less hackish manner.