[Users] Scientific Linux 5.7 OS Templates in contrib

[Sam Trenholme]

What is the procedure for submitting an OpenVZ image to the contributed
OpenVZ templates?

- Sam

2011/9/14 Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>

> Greetings,
>
> As you my have noticed CentOS 5.7 and Scientific Linux 5.7 both came out
> today... as did updated official OS Templates from the OpenVZ project.
>  Thanks Kir!
>
> I found a short recipe (
> http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=13&hl=bold) for
> converting a CentOS host to a Scientific Linux host and decided to give it a
> try.  It worked great.  I created a CentOS 5.6 container, followed the
> recipe and when I was done I had a Scientific Linux 5.7 container.  I had to
> add a couple of extra packages that aren't mentioned in the recipe and I was
> able to ignore those packages needed for a desktop system (mostly desktop
> logos and branding stuff).
>
> The final products are a i386 and an x86_64 contributed SL 5.7 OS Template.
>  You can find them in the usual place (
> http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/contrib/):
>
> scientific-5-i386-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz             14-Sep-2011 16:15
>  157M
> scientific-5-i386-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz.asc         14-Sep-2011 16:15
>  198
> scientific-5-x86_64-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz           14-Sep-2011 16:18
>  162M
> scientific-5-x86_64-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz.asc       14-Sep-2011 16:18
>  198
>
> I hope to update my contributed Fedora, CentOS and SL 6 OS Templates soon
> too.
>
> Enjoy,
> --
> Scott Dowdle
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