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

[Peter Siering]

Am 29.05.2007 um 11:21 schrieb Ralph Passgang:

> I don't understand the "-0-2" numbering myself, but I realized that  
> I don't need to know everything. I can live with that particular  
> ignorance :)
>
> I haven't followed the xen mailinglist for some months now. Have  
> they announced to change their versioning? Otherwise a 3.1.1 could  
> be released in some time and we shouldn't drop the last part of the  
> version number.

They did - as Nate Carlson pointed out already: http://marc.info/? 
l=xen-devel&m=117809708624370&w=2

>>> @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.
>>
>> Someone at the Xen mailinglist complained with no detail, that the
>> 3.1-doc-package has issues. For me it looks fine. May be you will see
>> the problem?
>
> The xen-docs-3.1 seems fine. But I haven't read all the stuff  
> packaged in the docs package. Maybe there is some old docs  
> included. Have you an exact describtion of the problem the user is  
> reporting?
>

Looks like a wrong tool chain: http://marc.info/?l=xen- 
users&m=118006289926676&w=2. I asked him for some more details on his  
build environment.

>
>> There is even a but report regarding this: The Debian Xen/kernel
>> packages do not contain the blktap modules. What is the reason for
>> this? (I did not find any discussion in the list archives.)
>
> the kernel doesn't include a certain module? please ask on the  
> debian kernel mailinglist. This pkg-xen team is _just_ packaging  
> the hyervisor and the userspace tools.
>

It's not the kernel team alone that "dislikes" blktap, take a look at  
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-xen/trunk/xen-3.0/debian/patches/ 
blktap-disable.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0. Or am I too green thinking  
that the Kernel and Xen packing teams talked about dropping blktap? ;-)

Peter