[Pkg-xen-devel] Contacting upstream

[Guido Trotter]

Hi,

during the week I was thinking to send an email to the upstream development list
to see if, at some point in the future, we might have the changes needed for us
not to patch their package, or to reduce our patches even more...

The points I was going to touch were:

/etc/sysconfig:
	We'd like, if it's possible, to have this be configurable at build
	time... The default can remain like it is now, so no one gets confused,
	but on the other hand we remove 10sysconfig.dpatch. This can probably be
	efficiently done by making the path a parameter, calling the source file
	xendomains.in and then processing it to produce the official xendomains
	substituting the path with the provided one.

LIBDIR:
	I guess we could do away with our patch if they accept to change their
	Config.mk from:

		ifeq ($(XEN_TARGET_ARCH),x86_64)
		LIBDIR = lib64
		else
		LIBDIR = lib
		endif

	to:

		ifeq ($(XEN_TARGET_ARCH),x86_64)
		LIBDIR ?= lib64
		else
		LIBDIR ?= lib
		endif

	Which shoudln't change anything for them and lets us pass the LIBDIR= parameter to make and remove our 20lib64.dpatch.

Any other points we might want to touch, while we're at it?

Guido