[Pkg-xen-devel] Removing the kernel patch

Goswin von Brederlow brederlo at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Mar 9 10:16:15 UTC 2006


Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:01:27PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 18:11 schrieb Dominic Hargreaves:
>
>> > Is there any particular reason to use the gforge stuff to host files?
>> > Putting things in http://pkg-xen.alioth.debian.org/ would probably be
>> > better and that's writable by all members of the alioth group.
>> > Cheers,
>> 
>> I also have already thought about that. It would also allow to supply .deb 
>> packages of the kernel-patch including the needed Packages.gz so that users 
>> can add pkg-xen.alioth.debian.org to their sources.list.
>> 
>> We could also upload "inofficial" dom0/U kernel packages there (if we agree on 
>> that).
>> 
>> maybe two subdirs? "kernel-patch" and "xen0-kernel" or something like that.
>
> Yes, this sounds good. I would caution against spending a lot of time
> producing kernel packages because we don't necessarily have the
> resources to maintain these (and deal with resultant bug reports) but if
> it can be done in an automated fashion and with big "use at your own
> risk" warnings I don't object.

I don't think the kernel packages should be maintained. If people want
a stable and supported kernel they should stick with the one Debian
will provide. The kernel on pkg-xen.alioth.d.o should be for
developers and early testers only.

I think it would be good to have a nightly build of the repository
giving a nightly kernel-patch, xen0-kernel and userspace tools debs
(only if something changed). The debs might not be overly usefull but
would act as quality control.

MfG
        Goswin



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