[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r13 - trunk/debian [signed]

Guido Trotter ultrotter at debian.org
Fri Feb 17 19:37:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:34:00AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:

Hi,

>     What we need to do is look at the build from make-kpkg when doing a
> Xen build and see what virtual package name it uses and then depend on
> that. If you look at a standard kernel build with make-kpkg it
> "Provides" several virtual package names regardless of the specific
> version of the kernel and arch. Typically this is like "linux-image-2.6,
> linux-image" which can then be used for a "Depends" on specifically a
> 2.6 version of the kernel or any linux kernel image. We should follow
> the same principal and find out what make-kpkg builds with for
> "Provides". I had previously done a build but didn't save it, merely to
> test the build and it did allow for building both xen0 and xenU kernels.
> 

Well... I have make-kpkg made kernels and they provide, as I said,
kernel-xen0 and  kernel-xen0-2.6!

Guido




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