[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r55 - trunk/debian [u]

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 21:48 schrieb Julien Danjou:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:39:21AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:
> >     Has anyone rebuilt and tested them yet, along with upgrading? If so
> > I think we're fine to change the version to -1 and tag.
>
> I will try to test upgrade tomorrow.

I cannot help testing a upgrade from 2.0.6 to 3.0.0 but I could imagine that 
it fails, but "only" with errors that are fixed when "apt-get install -f" is 
executed.

At least that was the situation I had with my packages as I tried the upgrade 
on a production system. it was because some libs have moved from one binary 
package to another and dpkg refuses to overwrite files that are still 
installed within another package. I guess that problem still exists.

upgrading when running a non-xen kernel with no vm's running should be fine 
(besides the issue mentioned already), but if you try it within a xen2 
kernel/hypervisor the new xen3 userspace utils will most likely not be able 
to communicate with the hypervisor anymore, so you cannot use "xm"-tools to 
safely shutdown vm's anymore.

Tbat's seems to be a general problem on upgrading major versions (not for 
3.0.0 -> 3.0.1 for example) so I don't know an easy situation. but let's wait 
what Julien reports tomorrow :)

besides that, I tested the package based on the latest testing.hg + our svn 
debian files and it worked flawlessly for me.

I agree to release the package as soon as the "upgrading" problem is tested 
and if needed fixed.

--Ralph