[Pkg-xen-devel] unblock: xcp-xapi - urgent documentation fixes

[Thomas Goirand]

On 03/07/2013 04:23 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> The current README.Debian is quite old
> 
> It gives some advice that will lead to people having a broken system
> (e.g. no networking).  It describes a procedure for configuring
> networking that is completely opposite to what has been described more
> recently on the upstream mailing list
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702337
> 
> I'm happy to overhaul this document and submit a debdiff for the release
> team to review - please confirm if this work should go ahead.  No other
> files in the package will be changed.

Hi Daniel and the release team,

First, thanks Daniel, for taking care of this. I do appreciate such
contributions.

I agree the README is not perfect, though I don't agree it is such a
disaster. The network configuration which I described in it does work,
contrary to what Daniel says. Others also reported using this howto
successfully. What's annoying though, is that to do it, you have to
reboot under a broken networking setup for a while, to be able to do
such a configuration, which is very annoying if you don't have a KVM
over IP in your server.

I have applied all of your git patches. Thanks for them. However, I
cannot apply the part that changes paragraph 4.2, as it did work for me,
and that I would not recommend removing all trace of the network
interface (you would loose network if you reboot without XCP).

I by the way believe that your paragraph "IMPORTANT BUG" is important to
add. Mike told me Citrix guys would come back to me with a fix for
#695221 (though it's been weeks I didn't hear about him yet).

Cheers,

Thomas