[Users] distribute template packages with yum

[Kir Kolyshkin]

The situation is going to be improved as the package management tools
(earlier known as vzpkg) will be a part of Virtuozzo 7, in fact the sources
are already there:
    https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ/repos/vztt/browse

as well as some templates metadata
   https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZT

Once all this will be ready, metadata will be distributed as rpm packages
and the caches will be created locally (vzpkg cache).

Please don't hold your breath, it's still not ready to be used,
but soon it will be.

On 06/19/2015 01:57 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> for creating rpm-files you need rpmbuild and spec-file.
>>
>> for example:
>>
>> $ cat vz-template-centos-7-x86_64-minimal.spec
>>
>> Name: vz-template-centos-7-x86_64-minimal
>> Version: 2015.06.16
>> Release: 1%{?dist}
>> License: TBD
>> Summary: TBD
>> Source0:
>> http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
>> %description
>> TBD
>> %install
>> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>> install -p -D -m0644 %{SOURCE0}
>> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/vz/template/cache/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
>>
>> %files
>> %defattr(-,root,root,-)
>> /vz/template/cache/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
>>
>> $ rpmbuild -ba vz-template-centos-7-x86_64-minimal.spec
>>
>> as result you will got
>>
>> vz-template-centos-7-x86_64-minimal-2015.06.16-1.el7.openvz.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> and file /vz/template/cache/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
>> now can be installed, upgraded, removed, ... via rpm and yum.
>>
>> # yum install vz-template-centos-7-x86_64-minimal
>>
>> # yum update
> When the package is just a big .tar.gz|xz file... and you have to build all new rpm files every time there are OS template updates... sounds like a lot of overhead.  Feel free to do it for yourself.  No one is going to stop you.
>
>> vztmpl-dl is package manager without dependency information provided.
>> this is not fine.
>>
>> and updating system to current state requires
>> run two commands instead of only one: "yum update".
>> this also is not fine.
> Umm, we really do NOT want to encourage people running older kernels and versions of the vz utils.  Everyone is recommended to run the latest stable releases.
>
> I just use rsync to grab the OS Templates myself.
>
> TYL,