[Pkg-xen-devel] Patches for Xen 3.1 packaging

[Nate Carlson]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> I don't understand the "-0-2" numbering myself, but I realized that I 
> don't need to know everything. I can live with that particular ignorance 
> :)
>
> I haven't followed the xen mailinglist for some months now. Have they 
> announced to change their versioning? Otherwise a 3.1.1 could be 
> released in some time and we shouldn't drop the last part of the version 
> number.

Xen used to label packages like 'Xen-3.0.1-1'; now they would just 
increment it to 3.0.2. No more double-release numbers.  :)

> I have packaged them for testing as well:
>
> http://packages.debianbase.de/sources/i386/xen3.1
> http://packages.debianbase.de/<etch|lenny|sid>/i386/xen3.1

Great-  I'll have to give these a shot.  :)

> @Bastian: What about Kernel Patches. Is there a new kernel-patch for xen 
> 3.1 available that can be integrated into the linux-2.6.20 kernels? I 
> know that the old xen-kernel works with the new hypervisor, but normally 
> also the kernel part of xen gets better with each version, so that we 
> might think of a new xen-kernel for debian as well.

Haven't seen any "good" patches for 2.6.20/2.6.21 yet.  :/

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