August 24th, 2006
Sometimes I want something, err, more technical to this blog. Today I just can not resist the urge.
By popular demand, we created yum repositories for OpenVZ packages. If you are have yum on your OpenVZ system, now you can install/update OpenVZ very easily. Yum is really great tool; we are already using it for maintaining per-VE packages, now it can also be used to update the OpenVZ installation itself.
First, you need to put openvz.repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory on your OpenVZ box (if there is no such directory, that means either yum is not installed or too old). Second, if you are using any other kernel than stable, enable the appropriate repository by editing openvz.repo file. Now you are all set.
To update your OpenVZ system, just run
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Last but not least: yum will use mirrors to download all the required packages.
By popular demand, we created yum repositories for OpenVZ packages. If you are have yum on your OpenVZ system, now you can install/update OpenVZ very easily. Yum is really great tool; we are already using it for maintaining per-VE packages, now it can also be used to update the OpenVZ installation itself.
First, you need to put openvz.repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory on your OpenVZ box (if there is no such directory, that means either yum is not installed or too old). Second, if you are using any other kernel than stable, enable the appropriate repository by editing openvz.repo file. Now you are all set.
To update your OpenVZ system, just run
yum update. Here is how it looks like on my FC5 desktop:( Read more...Collapse )
Last but not least: yum will use mirrors to download all the required packages.

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