Hi all,

It's solved the problem,

there was an error on my yum.conf file which had this line on it 
"exclude=glib*" and so that I wasn't able to install with you any gcc 
package.  After removing this package everything went ok.

Thanks a lot for your help,

David
> David Mezquíriz Osés wrote:
>   
>> Hi Kirill,
>>
>> No problem, my VE was based on centos 4.5
>>
>> If I do a
>> # vzpkgls
>> centos-4-i386-minimal
>> centos-4-i386-default
>>
>> It was using the second one.
>>
>> I think someone else put this line into yum.conf by error, I'm not the 
>> only person who manipulates this VE, and we have been using VIRTUOZZO 
>> for a couple of years or so and we had to put this line into yum.conf in 
>> order to get yum application to run. So I think thats what happened, by 
>> similarity someone put this line into it. After the conversation with 
>> you I removee this line from yum.conf and I was able to do a "yum 
>> install gcc" and the VE seems to run ok.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>> Kirill Korotaev escribió:
>>
>>     
>>> you are welcome!
>>> so what was VE based on? just out of curiosity...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kirill
>>>
>>>
>>> David Mezquíriz Osés wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi Kirill,
>>>>
>>>> Ups...sorry, so I might do a mistake with this template, I'm going to 
>>>> create again this VPS with templates from download.openvz.org and let 
>>>> you know if everything goes ok..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Kirill Korotaev escribió:
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> What VE template do you use? where did you take it?
>>>>> I've checked centos-4 precached teamplates from download.openvz.org
>>>>> and they have no such issue. They have no yum installed in VE at all :@)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Kirill
>>>>>
>>>>> David Mezquíriz Osés wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi Kirill,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your answered,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes, of course I tried to do a "yum install gcc" on my VPS without any 
>>>>>> success because this is the restriction I mentioned,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if I do a "cat" command look at the last line, I didn't add it, so I 
>>>>>> assumed it was a openvz restriction, because I know for sure that 
>>>>>> Virtuozzo put this restriction into yum.conf so that I supposed Openvz 
>>>>>> did the same, and my doubt is the following, may I remove "exclude=glib* 
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>> >from yum.conf file?:
>>>>>      
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> ####################################################
>>>>>> # cat /etc/yum.conf
>>>>>> [main]
>>>>>> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>>>>>> debuglevel=2
>>>>>> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>>>>>> pkgpolicy=newest
>>>>>> installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel 
>>>>>> kernel-largesmp kernel-largesmp-devel kernel-hugemem kernel-hugemem-devel
>>>>>> distroverpkg=centos-release
>>>>>> tolerant=1
>>>>>> exactarch=1
>>>>>> retries=20
>>>>>> obsoletes=1
>>>>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>>>> plugins=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
>>>>>> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
>>>>>> exclude=glib*
>>>>>> ########################################################
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kirill Korotaev escribió:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> David Mezquíriz Osés wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm getting started with openvz so I'm a bit lost with it, so I hope you 
>>>>>>>> can help me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is the situation:
>>>>>>>> I create an VE with centos 4.4.
>>>>>>>> The hardware node has this kernel "2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.028stab039.1" and 
>>>>>>>> it's a centos 4.5 server.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The problem is the following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I created successfully the VE but unfortunatelly I tried to compile a 
>>>>>>>> tar.gz file that I need but I don't have any gcc compiler inside the VE. 
>>>>>>>> I found out that inside the yum configuration file there is a 
>>>>>>>> restriction on it, glib is excluded from any installation so I don't 
>>>>>>>> want to remove it from it.
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> what restriction do you mean?
>>>>>>> all you need is to do:
>>>>>>> # yum install gcc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> I know that there is a devel-ce4 package built by Swsoft which can be 
>>>>>>>> installed into a VE based on Virtuozzo in order to allow gcc compiler 
>>>>>>>> into this VE, but I don't find any package similar to this for openvz.
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> devel package just include binutils/gcc and some other devel rpms.
>>>>>>> the installation is still done via yum (in case of EZ templates).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> I would like to ask you if some of you either has been able to compile 
>>>>>>>> inside a VE or has been able to build a template like that.
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> after you have installed gcc inside VE, you can create a template
>>>>>>> cache from this VE. template cache can be used later to create new
>>>>>>> VEs already with preinstalled packages you want (in your case -devel).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Kirill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>               
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