[Pkg-xen-devel] xenstore situation

[Bastian Blank]

Hi folks

Some time ago I split out the xenstore utils out of the main utils
package. I thought myself what could possibly be wrong and found
nothing. I was wrong.

Xen upstream decided to break the protocol between the client library
and the daemon in a subtle way. This was compensated with a change in
the daemon.

Earlier versions of the library used the kernel access method as
default. There is support to make relative paths absolute and the daemon
always have absolute paths. This default was changed.

The current version defaults to using socket access. Because the daemon
now may get relative paths, it changed to make it absolute on its
own[1]. This means that a current libxenstore is not compatible with
older xenstored.

Bastian

[1]: Changeset f1b435507f34
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