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

[Bastian Blank]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:36:34PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 5. März 2006 18:42 schrieb Bastian Blank:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't get that.

What don't you get? That you can't just replace /boot/xen.gz without any
check?

> providing kernel images is not the job of the pkg-xen group. And besides that. 
> I don't think a depenendcy for a kernel is really what we want. Of course we 
> would like to have kernel images available within the debian archive, so that 
> it's easy for the user to install a kernel, but we also want that the user 
> can compile his own kernel, so we should use a dependency for a kernel at 
> all.

Yes, you can't depend on one. And anyway, a dependency won't change anything.

Bastian

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