[Pkg-xen-devel] Are we there yet?

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 06:28 schrieb Guido Trotter:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:23:20PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > hmmm, I am not sure what is still open and not fixed, but I guess the
> > most stuff is in shapre for a release now.
>
> I have test packages built with the last svn on
>
> http://debian.quaqua.net/quaqua pkg-xen/
>
> Anyway before uploading we need to fix the xenstore library positioning
> issue! Then I think we're pretty much done!
>
> > but what about the dh-kpatches problem? We still have a patch that
> > doesn't change the extraversion.
>
> is it really necessary? I noticed that mine doesn't too! (I don't know why,
> I didn't use upstream's makefile to build it, but just manually did a
> ./mkbuildtree and applied patches/linux-2.6.12/ patches) And since I
> compile with --arch=xen I already get package names called
> linux-xen0-2.6.12.6tst000_000_i386.deb (the tst000 is mine)...

not really sure what happens if you "just" use mkbuildtree. But I am hoping 
that upstream fixes the patch generation anyways, I would like to use this 
function for patch generation.

of course it's not a critical problem that the extraversion is missing in 
the .config, but of course I can life with it the way it is (it's exactly how 
my package handled it).

But you should add "--append_to_version .6-xen" to the make-kpkg options to 
have a kernel that reports "2.6.12.6-xen" with the uname comand.

What version does a uname reports on your xen-kernel?

> Anyway if we want we can even direct people to the patch and tell them to
> apply it with zcat patch | patch -p1, and be done! ;)

of course, that's the other posibiltiy. because we use a vanilla kernel and 
not a debianized one this would be okay, wouldn't it?

Hmmm, but is it really better? not sure... I don't want to decice that :)

--Ralph

> Guido
>
>
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