[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#805508: Bug#805508: Bug#805508: Bug#805508: xen: Unable to create HVM domUs

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 15:16 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> anything better would need to be arranged upstream.

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=de858271c16851d662b2613
699401df6ecec8ef8 has now landed upstream, which allows the leaf dir to be
set at configure time and therefore allows the packaging to avoid patching
some stuff.

HVM guests have been broken in Stretch for ages now, so I'm going to look
at preparing an NMU based on that upstream fix + adding
--with-libexec-leaf-dir=xen-$(VERSION) to the configure arguments. I expect
some minor adjustments to debian/patches/config-prefix.diff will also be
required.

An early version of that (based on the not-yet-upstream version of the
patch) is in pkg-xen.git#feature/bug805508, I don't imagine the final
result will look much different.

I'll post a debdiff here as well as updating that branch.

Ian.