From: Georges Toth (georges_at_norm.lu)
Date: Mon 14 Oct 2002 - 21:57:51 BST
> My work on porting to gentoo is progressing. The unify part is probably
> what I will do last since my gentoo vservers are not that big anyways
> (300-400 MB). I found a very elegant way of building gentoo vserver. I will
> create a stage1 tarball with a special "vserver" profile. As you may know,
> profiles under gentoo are used to port to different architectures. The
> profile will have all hardware/kernel related things stripped. Also
> baselayout will be replaced by a new package, v_baselayout. This package
> will set the basic /etc/init.d/ scripts properly as well as /etc/fstab,
> /sbin/rc and various other things.
>
> Creating a new vserver will be much like installing gentoo. Extract the
> tarball in /vservers/blah, chroot in it, bootstrap and "emerge system".
sounds great.
might be a good idea to create an i686 optimized stage3 tarball as well, so
you don't have to bootstrap and compile everything, everytime you add a new
vserver
....and an archive of precompiled ebuild-packages......i'll do that at least
as soon as vservers are running correctly for me under gentoo
-- regards, Georges Toth