[Users] centos 5.4 template in rpm or yum , miss metadata ?

[Ashley Merrick]

What about just using a precreated centos5 template?? Or have I missed
something??

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On 13 Apr 2010, at 16:23, jehan procaccia <jehan.procaccia at it-sudparis.eu
 > wrote:

> So, If I understand well, there's never been an (official ?)
> centos-5 template for openvz.
> If I want one, I need to use the unofficial build method explained
> here: http://www.neonhost.com/openvz/
> or use the official method : http://wiki.openvz.org/Centos_Upgrade_4.x_to_5.0
> Am I correct ? I don't want to start in the wrong direction .
>
> anyway, I'am new to openvz (I'am from linux-vservers ...) and I'am
> surprised that people out there still run centos-4 !
> isn't it any simple way to get a centos-5 VPS ?
>
> thanks .
>
> On 04/13/2010 05:01 PM, Steven Crothers wrote:
>> No, that is incorrect. It is no longer maintained.
>>
>> Which doesn't mean "not available yet" it means "not available ever".
>>
>> Please read the forums, the mail list archives and wiki.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jehan procaccia [mailto:jehan.procaccia at it-sudparis.eu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:21 AM
>> To: users at openvz.org
>> Cc: Steven Crothers
>> Subject: Re: [Users] centos 5.4 template in rpm or yum , miss
>> metadata ?
>>
>> what do you mean ?
>> from what I see, vztmpl for centos-5 is not "yet" available instead
>> of
>> "no longer maintained" !
>> there is one for centos-4, but can't find one for centos-5 .
>>
>>
>> On 04/13/2010 01:56 PM, Steven Crothers wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding is that vztmpl is no longer maintained.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users-bounces at openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces at openvz.org]
>>> On Behalf
>>> Of mattias
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:22 AM
>>> To: jehan.procaccia at it-sudparis.eu; users at openvz.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] centos 5.4 template in rpm or yum , miss
>>> metadata ?
>>>
>>> sorry if i use this thread
>>> but how to use the vztmpl via yum
>>> no config files or something
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "jehan procaccia"<jehan.procaccia at it-sudparis.eu>
>>> To:<users at openvz.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:39 PM
>>> Subject: [Users] centos 5.4 template in rpm or yum , miss metadata ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On a fedora-11 (32 bits) host openVZ system I want to run a
>>>> centos5.4
>>>>
>> VPS,
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> but apparently it is not available by default :-(
>>>>
>>>> # yum search vztmpl
>>>> vztmpl-centos-4.i386
>>>> vztmpl-fedora-7.i386 ...etc ..  but no centos-5 !
>>>>
>>>> did I miss something in the openvz.repo !?
>>>>
>>>> alternatively, I tried to use precreated template as mention here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> http://wiki.openvz.org/OS_template_cache_preparation#Alternative:_use_precre
>>
>>> ated_template_cache
>>>
>>>
>>>> I downloaded 2 tar.gz of centos5
>>>> # ls /vz/template/cache/
>>>> centos-5-i386-default-5.4-20100412.tar.gz  centos-5-x86.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> I can create a VPS based on those precreated template, but it
>>>> seems to
>>>> miss the template metadata or something
>>>> if I want to update my freshly installed VPS I get:
>>>> # vzyum 21230 update
>>>> ERROR: No such OS template: update
>>>>
>>>> vzpkgls doesn't return anything :-(
>>>> # vzpkgls
>>>>
>>>> Did I miss something ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards .
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