[Pkg-xen-devel] missing xen-utils binaries

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Peter Siering <lists at siering.org> writes:

> Am 15.06.2007 um 17:59 schrieb Henning Sprang:
>
>>
>> This one I just watched in Ralph Passgang's 3.1 packages, but I saw  
>> the
>> same in the Debian packages(at least in stable), too:
>>
>> look at
>> # for i in `ls /usr/lib/xen-3.1.0-1/bin`; do ls /usr/sbin/$i; done
>> (with the correct version string, I suppose)

They should not be linked nor should they be used with the full path
by anything outside that path. Instead there should be a wraper script
in xen-utils-common that detects the right version and then calls the
full path. Look at /usr/sbin/xend.

> Can someone shed some light on the objectives for putting Xen files  
> in versioned sub directories?

So you can have multiple versions of xen utils installed for different
versions of the hypervisor.

> Thanks,
> Peter

MfG
        Goswin