[Pkg-xen-devel] XCP and OpenXenCenter

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Jul 11 19:03:52 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:38:54AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 1/ blktap(-ko)
> How much this blktap and blktap-ko differ from the one in the "normal"
> pvops kernel?

blktap was never and will never be accepted into the kernel.

> 2/ xen-api binary names
> xen-api-xe
> xen-api-www
> xen-api-tests
> xen-api-squeezed
> xen-api-v6d
> xen-api-xenops

So most of them can be used independent?

> libxen-api-client
> libxen-api-datamodel

Missing ABI version.

> libxen-api-client-dev
> libxen-api-datamodel-dev

Why?

> 4/ Build-Depends
> For the moment, I have the following:
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libpam-ocaml-dev, texlive-base, omake,
> ocaml-findlib, libxmlm-ocaml-dev, libtype-conv-camlp4-dev, libxen-dev,
> zlib1g-dev

If you build-depend on libxen-dev, you have to include the version of
the underlying Xen somewhere.

> 5/ Naming
> Should we use "xen-api" or "xapi" ? To me "xen-api" seems more relevant,
> and might avoid clashes with X-Window. What do you think?

The X prefix means X11.

Bastian

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