Re: sid on openvz
>>>>> "AJ" == Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:
AJ> If you consider Debian "stable" as too archaic, I am missing words to
AJ> qualify a 2.6.32 kernel released in 2009. Prehistoric maybe?
Indeed, but we don't have any choice there.
And it isn't Linus' 2.6.32, its openvz's port of rh's port of 2.6.32.
So it isn't as out of date as the main version number suggests.
>> There should be a way to continue to use sid on these platforms.
AJ> One solution is to use jessie plus backports. This will be supported up
AJ> to at least May 2018, probably May 2020.
I'm (slowly) switching my openvzs to that, but not being able ever to
upgrade from jessie (and trusty for the U users, given that they've
pulled 2.21 into xenial) is a problem, even with backports.
AJ> The minimum required version in the glibc is something configurable at
AJ> build time (to some extents, the absolute minimum is 2.6.32 for glibc
AJ> 2.21).
The ideal solution, then, would be a separate libc package compiled to
work with openvz's kernel. Maybe called libc-openvz. And it would be
great if apt could install it by default whenever it sees /proc/vz.
This would be similar to the libc6-i686:i386, libc-xen and libc-pic
packages (and any others that I missed).
Given that it is already done for xen guests, it shouldn't be an issue
also to do so for openvz guests.
[Appologies for being slow to respond; 4.4-rc4 proved much less stable
than rc3 on my workstation.]
-JimC
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