[Pkg-xen-devel] Test version of the glibc with xen flavour

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi!

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:37:24PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> > I am sorry to say, but I think the packages doesn't work as expected. I have 
> > installed your libc6, libc6-xen and libc6-dev package on my debian unstable 
> > system, where xen-3.0.1 is installed but it seems so that nothing has 
> > changed. I have checked that in dom0 and domU.
> 
> You need some patches from the fedora glibc to support
> /etc/ld.so.config.d and mapped hwcaps.
 
After a few time, I found some time to come back on libc6-xen.

It looks like a bit complicated to extract all the patches from the
fedora glibc, but it looks like those patches are included in glibc 2.4.

That's why I propose to have a libc6-xen with the same path as
libc6-i686, and which conflicts with it. When installed it will be
activated on i686 class processors, which, if I am right, are the 
minimum processors supported by Xen.

Does it looks ok to you?

I have made some test packages, available on:
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/xen

Bye,
Aurelien

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