[Pkg-xen-devel] xen reorganization

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Aug 21 05:17:52 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:13:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> * Introduce xen-common source which provides xen-utils-common binary packages.
> This package provides a dispatcher for the installed xen-utils
>   packages.
> * xen-3.0 produces xen-hypervisor-$version-$abi-$flavour and
>   xen-utils-$version-$abi. $version is the upstreamversion like 3.0.2 or
>   3.0-unstable, $abi describes the dom0 interface.
> * xen-hypervisor depends on the correct xen-utils.
> * The linux package produces another binary
>   xen-linux-system-$kernelversion which depends on the correct
>   linux-image and xen-hypervisor packages. It also provides some
>   information to update-grub, which xen image to use for the given
>   kernel.
* Change versioning to match upstream versions:
  - 3.0.2-3+hg9762
  - 3.0-unstable+hg11205
* Only use short version for xen-ioemu. A wrong version does not break
  the boot and it is not easy possible to pull in the last version
  without dependency.

Bastian

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