Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 01:09 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: 
> ----- Original message -----
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:34:23 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> > 
> > > # <para>
> > > # Upgrades from Lenny will not automatically install Xen version 4.0.
> > > Instead # you need to install Xen 4.0 and a corresponding dom0 kernel
> > > explicitly. See # the wiki page for instructions on how to set up the
> > > Xen hypervisor and dom0 # kernel under Squeeze.
> > > # </para>
> > 
> > Is this actually true?   Don't the xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-*
> > metapackages take care of this upgrade?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Julien
> 
> I wrote this after experimenting it myself on my Xen
> development server! Unless this changed over the
> last month it is true, and I wrote bug reports for
> it. It might be worth trying again and see what
> happens, and maybe link to the bug entry.

xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-amd64 and xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-686 were
added to Squeeze when linux-latest-2.6 was uploaded last week, closing
bug #402414.

So I think the advice now should be to install one of those metapackages
rather than the current advice to install specific hypervisor and
linux-image packages. This will facilitate future upgrades.

Can your bugs, #606589 and merged #606590, also be closed due to the
addition of the metapackages and/or this advice to the release notes?

BTW, why do we refer users to the wiki instead of including the advice
inline in the release notes? Is that just the way the release notes are
normally written?

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

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