[Pkg-xen-devel] Patches for Xen 3.1 packaging

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007 01:24:05 schrieb Peter Siering:
> Hi,

Hi Peter,

> attached (hopefully ;-)) you'll find patches against the current SVN
> for xen-3.0 and xen-common to support Xen 3.1. Packages I've build
> with them run fine under Debian Etch for a couple of days now (with
> the official 2.6.18-4-xen kernel).

great news!

> But I am sure there will be some issues. 

there are always some problems if you try to include such a complicated piece 
of software like xen in such a big and active project like debian. But that's 
ok, That's what the bug tracker is for... :)

> I did not do any 
> modifications regarding versioning - something that changes with Xen
> 3.1. Comments are welcome.

hmmm? I am not sure if I get that correctly... You changed the version in the 
changelog (of course), so that was obviously not what you meant. Do you mean 
the documents like README.Debian and so on? Or is there anything else that 
needs to be changed for 3.1?

> Those Patches are downloadable at http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/ps/
> downloads.shtml.

Even if I read heise newsticker and c't as well as i'x if I have time, I 
haven't saw this (quite hidden) part of the heise homepage... I definitly 
missed something in the past .)

Great job! I am very happy to see active debian xen development, even if (once 
again) the work has been done outside the official debian. Seems so that 
debian needs that from time to time to keep up to date.

> There are as well ready to use packages build for 
> x86 on Etch (sorry no amd64), just use in your sources.list, if you
> like to try those packages:
>
> deb http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/ps/downloads etchxen310/

The focus of the pkg-xen debian team will not be etch, because etch has 
already been released and so newer xen packages will never hit the official 
etch archive. The main goal has to be the new testing version lenny (and 
unstable/sid of course). But for sure it's good to have packages that doesn't 
need (a lot of) changes to backport them to etch.

I will try your package source on unstable as soon as I have time for that. 
Because my schedule is quite scary for the next 2-3 weeks I hope I find some 
time for this on the upcoming weekend, but I can't really promise, because I 
have to prepare some other stuff for linuxtag in berlin...
 
@Pkg-Xen-Team: I think we shouldn't release xen 3.0.4 anymore, so is it ok if 
I commit Peters changes (and maybe some more, if needed) to svn after I have 
tested them? I would like to see xen 3.1 in debian unstable anytime in near 
future. 

> Peter

thx Peter for your work, I appreciate that a lot!

grüsse an den fleissigen heise-Paketbastler ;-P

-- Ralph