Bugzilla Bug 24619

This ebuild installs a vanilla 2.4.17 patched with context-security to create
virtual servers (something similar to BSD jails). You also need the vserver-admin
tools from bug #19230 to make use of this new kernel.

At the moment ipv6-support needs to be enabled to make the kernel compile with
this patch.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=14566) [details]
vserver-sources-2.4.21.17.ebuild

ctx-17a is available on ftp -- renaming the ebuild updates to the new version.

Anyone from the vserver staff has advised me to prefer the ctx17a from Jacques
GELINAS (the project maintainer) than the one from solucorp. He had said that
the story was long... I don't have more information. :c)

I've patch my ctx17 kernel w/ the Jacques patches, and all seem ok w/ the
vserver-0.23 tools. cf. bug #19230

I've forgotten the URL :c/ sorry :
[ http://www.13thfloor.at/VServer/Patches.shtml ]

I'm using the patches from ftp.solucorp.qc.ca (ctx17a) with vserver-0.23 -- no
problems so far.
btw. I thought solucorp _was_ the maintainers primary site?
As far as I understood the notes on 13thfloor the patches there are unofficial.

another update (ctx-17c) is avail.
like the last one: just rename the ebuild.
I haven't tested 17c in production yet, but the changes seem small and the
kernel
builds fine with the new patch.
Now there is also a 2.4.22-version of the patch on "solucorp.qc.ca" -- but
I haven't even downloaded that one.

This bug is fairly out of date. For the last few months, the vserver-sources
have instead had their home at http://www.linux-vserver.org the current
"stable" patchset is vs1.20 released by herbert poetzl. Maintainer: Please
subscribe to the vserver mailing list at lists.linux-vserver.org to stay up to
date. If need be, you may contact me directly, and I'll take over keeping this
thing current.

adding myself to the cc

@allen: i wasn't aware that maintainership changed -- it seems that
ftp.solucorp.qc.ca (Jaques) is still releasing new versions (both tools and
kernel-patch).
can you point us to further info regarding maintainership? (i did not find it
on
http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/project/)

thanks, thomas

As he may well be. herbert@13thfloor.at is the current maintainer of the kernel
patchset. #vserver on irc.oftc.net is the project irc channel,
vserver@list.linux-vserver.org, as I mentioned before Herbert has pretty much
taken the project over. Jacques Galinas didn't do much for a few months and
then Herbert asked if he could have the project and Jacques agreed. I'm not
sure why Jacques continues to release patches and tools, but Herbert's patches
have been very stable and bug-free. To get the full features of Herbert's
kernels, you must be running the util-vserver tools released by Enrico Sholz.
Unfortunately, the source of the util-vserver tools is currently down. I have
md5sum'd versions of all of his tools stored locally on one of my servers if
anyone is interested in gaining access to those sources.

It seems to me that Jacques Galinas is only doing code work specifically for
himself, as he's not an active participant on the mailing list (other than
source release announcements). Whereas on the other hand, Herbert Poetzl is
taking an active lead in the development and support of the linux-vserver/
s_context project. I hope that I've helped clear up some misconceptions and/or
misunderstandings as to the focus of the linux-vserver project.

As a side note, Herbert Poetzl is also doing expiremental releases of the
vs1.xx patchsets and he's doing the majority of the kernel-level development
and testing (I think he said something along the lines of each release is
compiled and run at least 10 times without an error before he'll release the
patchset).

Created an attachment (id=23344) [details]
vserver-sources-2.4.23.1.22.ebuild

I tested this on two machines for a few weeks now and it run fine (with
util-vserver-0.26 and the new 0.27).

the current stable is 2.4.24-vs1.22. 2.4.x-vs1.4x will be coming soon
hopefully, vs1.3.3/vs1.3.4 is broken unless the Development/iw01.diff and
iw02.diff are applied. more information can be gained at #vserver on
irc.oftc.net

update: 2.4.24-vs1.24 is the latest stable -- renaming the ebuild + ajusting KV
+ OKV is sufficient.

Created an attachment (id=25431) [details]
vserver-sources-2.4.24.1.26.ebuild

latest version -- added new ebuild for convenience.

Created an attachment (id=26913) [details]
vserver-sources-2.4.25.1.3.8.ebuild (devel-version)

ebuild for the latest deveolpment-version -- beside path-adjustments there are
modifications as the patch is now wrapped in an archive (tar.bz2).

2 notes:
a) the devel-version (1.3.8) of the patch is also distributed in compressed diff-
format -- maybe we should use that one instead of the .tar.bz2-version?
b) I found LVM2 to be a good addition to the vserver-stuff: you can create
new devices/filesystems on the fly, play around with different filesystems,
the vservers are better "separated" from each other, ...
If there is interrest in this I could post the ajusted version (vs1.3.8 and
device-mapper dm-1).

the latest stable is 1.27 now (haven't have time to test it yet, but a rename
should be sufficient).

for the devel-version there may be newer "util-vserver" than 0.29 (a prerelease
named "~.196") be needed. I haven't yet submitted an ebuild for that (could post
it this afternoon if the devel-vserver-patches make it in).

Okies. Checked this in as well.