[Pkg-xen-devel] Newbie question

[Ian MacDonald]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:01 +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:56:44PM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote:
> > 
> > I think I'll need to compile my own kernels, but do I need to compile
> > the userland Xen stuff too, or is there a  semi-official backport ? 
> 
> Semi official ones here:
> http://naquadah.org/~jd/debian/xen/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/
> Directly build from the repository.
> 
> For the kernel, you should use the latest version of kernel-package I
> think, I don't know if it's possible to backport it.

You need 10.040 or later.  Backports.org should be there soon:

Keep your eyes on this:
http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-package/

For now you'll want to go with a minor tweak to apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "stable";

add unstable sources, and then

apt-get update
apt-get install kernel-package/unstable

When backports catches up, simply tweak your /etc/apt/preferences with

Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: kernel-package
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

add backports.org sources and then

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

optionally remove the unstable sources no longer required

As as side note, if you have dependency problems at this point, you may
also consider these other backports.org packages we have on one of our
Xen+Stable gateways, recently running the packages described above.

Package: udev
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: lsb-base
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: module-init-tools
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: make
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999


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