[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#608253: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 21:02 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: 
> (Or unless blah blah manual kernel upgrade blah blah udev, but since
> nobody's answering that question I'll assume it's a "no".)

I saw this question before, meant to come back to it, and forgot, sorry!

Earlier, Justin wrote:
> Mind you, how does this interact with the requirement in the generic
> upgrade procedure for a kernel change to handle udev?  Might that fix
> it, if xen users are going to need a 2.6.32 xen kernel with extra
> metapackaginess before they can upgrade the rest of the system?

WRT their interactions with udev and such the linux-image-*xen packages
are just another kernel package so if their is some generic constraint
in the upgrade process due to udev then they are also subject to it.

However I don't think the manual installation of
linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-{686,amd64} step would be sufficient to pull in
the rest of the Xen upgrade. In particular I am reasonably (but not
totally) sure it won't pull in the xen-linux-system-2.6-{686,amd64}
meta-package or the hypervisor update.

Doing the "manually install xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-{686,amd64}"
installation step at the same stage that any manual kernel installation
step would be done seems like the right thing to do to me.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I.  I
believe everything positively stinks.
		-- Lew Col
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/attachments/20110131/12c08550/attachment.pgp>