| Re: There is great concern that OpenVZ is no longer being supported. [message #38121 is a reply to message #38021] |
Thu, 19 November 2009 18:46   |
pva0xd
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| kir wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 15:32 | 2.6.24, 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are all development branches, never ever recommended for production, and yes, we kinda stopped maintaining those.
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This basically means that you stopped support Gentoo.
We are unable to use rhel based kernels: they are too old to be used with newer toolchain and there is really large number of configurations that fail to build.
So currently I'm not sure what to do next: should we keep openvz kernel in Gentoo or should we suggest users other alternatives? 2.6.27 openvz kernel is just security nightmare as at least two really important security issues are there. Fortunately 2.6.27 is long maintained kernel upstream so I've managed to backport fixes from stable branch into openvz sources. But there are other openvz related bugs and even some fixes still sit in bugzilla! I really don't understand why it's so hard to add fixes straight to git and since I'm not capable to read all reports at openvz's bugzilla and merge fixes from there into our patchset I really wonder: is it worth to keep openvz-sources in Gentoo? For me it looks like it's not very sane to encourage users use unmaintained technology...
And yes, there is sense to use Gentoo on HN since it makes possible to build everything with hardened toolchain and really drop everything unneeded.
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