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

[jehan procaccia]

Ok I understand now that vztmpl is deprecated (I read that in the 
users-guide and wiki though ...)
now I did installed from precreated template cache

But then, my major concern is how do I maintain that VPS
how I update it, install packages etc ...

for example, following wiki and users-guide I saw that command to update
# vzyum 21230 update
ERROR: No such OS template: update

here you see that I misse something !
template metadata I supose ? or should I use an other way/command to 
update and/or install packages ?

vzpkgls doesn't return anything :-(
# vzpkgls

or I should go to http://wiki.openvz.org/Install_vzpkg2_and_pkg-cacher 
as mentioned earlier in that thread.

As a new comer to openvz it is not clear which method is best , which is 
supported and which will be kept/maintained in the futur
I was about to convert 50 linux-vservers to openvz just because 
linux-vservers was to much debian oriented , no libvirt enabled and 
didn't cope very well with recent kernel & centos relaeses,
now, I'am afraid that openvz is not that much redhat/rpm oriented as I 
expected , I am wrong ?

Thanks for your help .

On 04/13/2010 05:48 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Jehan,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>    
>> 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'm new to openvz (I'am from linux-vservers ...) and I'm
>> surprised that people out there still run centos-4 !
>> isn't it any simple way to get a centos-5 VPS ?
>>      
> Just to clarify... you are correct.  There have NOT been any new OS Template metadata packages released for some time.  The newest date on them (see: http://download.openvz.org/template/metadata/) appears to be 2006... so any distro released after that, there aren't any metadata packages for... which includes CentOS 5.
>
> The OpenVZ Project has been doing a pretty good job of releasing pre-created OS Templates for all of the major distros.
>
> The official vzpkg was lacking anyway as it would only allow for the creation of OS Templates for rpm-based distros.  vzpkg2 and pkg-cacher were much better because they added .deb-based distros to the mix.
>
> There are a number of recipes on the wiki for building your own OS Templates from scratch if desired.
>
> TYL,
>