[Pkg-xen-devel] [Xen-users] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 02/06/2014 10:15, Sylvain Munaut ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
>
> I spent some time making xen-4.4 packages for myself to use in wheezy
> and I though I'd share some of the issues I encountered.
>
> I started from the xen 4.3 package for jessies and adapted the debian/
> directory for it to work. I also wanted some things enabled that are
> usually not in debian packages. I wanted stubdoms built (and in case
> of 64 bits, have both pvgrub64 and pvgrub32) and I wanted the option
> to have both qemu-upstream (for  which I just use an upgraded version
> of the qemu package) and also have qemu-traditional built and
> installed.
>
> The two things that were tricky to track down are :
>
> * Using the packaged version of etherboot / seabios broke the build of
> hvmloader for me
>    (so I removed those patches :
>          config-etherboot.diff
>          tools-firmware-etherboot-packaged.diff
>          tools-firmware-seabios-packaged.diff
>    )
>
>    It would build the hvmloader just fine, but I wouldn't be able to
> actually boot the domain, it would just hang at boot with some weird
> MMIO error. And when looking at the source package of seabios, I can
> see it's built without the XEN option enabled and without the xen
> patches.
>
> * Make sure flags aren't forcibly set when building 'tools'.
>    In particular this patch tools-flag.diff
>
>    This causes some options to be set that will forcibly enable the
> stack protection to be built for some of the libraries / code that
> will be used in stubdoms and this cause them to be non-functional. You
> also need to make sure that when running the 'configure' in stubdom/
> you do NOT give the CFLAGS and just let the configure use it's own
> default ones rather than the ones set by dpkg-buildpackage.
>
>    Again, the stubdom would build without error but be non functional.
> (In this case I tested with PVGrub).
>
>
> Now I know that the resulting package I made has no chance of ever
> being merged because it downloads dynamically some stuff from the web,
> but if anyone wants to take a look, I can send the debian/ directory
> ...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>      Sylvain
>
>
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I already did a draft some days ago and posted here, I also tested it 
and was working, seabios ok also with 1.7.5-1 when 128k removed the xen 
support ecc..
https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/commits/wheezy-backports
I started from ubuntu build, I removed qemu traditional already removed 
in debian and did some improvements.
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2014-05/msg00187.html

Awaiting replies I started to help with cinnamon's debian packages.


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