[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r70 - trunk/xen-3.0/debian

[Bastian Blank]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:43:23PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 13:45 schrieb Julien Danjou:
> > Bastian, why did you remove this package in your last commit?
> 
> I would like to have an explanation for that too. We believe we don't need to 
> remove this package (at least now where all problems with upgrading from 
> older versions have been fixed) and it helps to have a setup that is easy to 
> setup for new users (because they only need to run: "apt-get install xen") 
> and even it helps for upgrading a xen2 setup to xen3.

I don't see a dependency against a kernel nor a check if it will boot at
all (this is impossible). A valid upgrade procedure have no point where
it can make the system unbootable. The same problem makes it currently
impossible to do automatic kernel upgrades from sarge.

> Maybe there also other solutions, what about renaming the "xen" package to 
> "xen-3.0" and providing "xen" within "xen-3.0"?

What do you want to achieve?

> Please explain at least why you think this is wrong. We are a team, so we 
> should discuss such stuff. I also tried to explain why I added the xen 
> package again in my svn comment, please also use this svn log more. just 
> "updated control" is a absolout useless comment, because the information 
> which files you updated is obvious.

It was targeted to another tree.

> for example there are two entries for "xen-utils-3.0" in debian/control now. 

This is clearly wrong.

> Or why do you cross-compile hypervisors?

There is nothing cross-compiled there.

> If you use a 64bit hypervisor you have to use a 64bit dom0 kernel and you have 
> to use 64bit version of xen userspace tools.

Bah, they really have allignment issues in some struct.

> And the rules files seems to be broken in some places, because when I try to 
> compile xen with the debian dir with all svn commits from you, I have this 
> error at the end:

This are the wrong install files.

Bastian

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