[Pkg-xen-devel] XCP and OpenXenCenter

[Jonathan Ludlam]

Hi Bastian,

I'd like to get the effort to make the xen ocaml packages back on track, and I have a couple of questions related to things you mentioned back in July:
 
On 11 Jul 2011, at 19:58, Bastian Blank wrote:

> Please properly backport them to 4.1. I won't take that as patches.

On the recommendation of the debian ocaml task force, we renamed the ocaml packages to have less generic names. This patch went into xen-unstable.hg. Would you accept this patch (or a rebased version), as its intent is to satisfy packaging requirements?

>> +usr/lib/ocaml/{xl,xb,xc,xs,eventchn,mmap,uuid}
> 
> Nope. This are no development files. This are Xen version specific
> libraries.

I was just looking back to this comment and worrying a bit. The xenctrl, xenlight, xenstore etc. libraries are currently being installed into /usr/lib/xen-4.1/lib. The standard place to install ocaml packages is in /usr/lib/ocaml. I presume the C library files have been installed into a non-standard place for a good reason, so I'm wondering whether the ocaml libraries ought to be installed into /usr/lib/xen-4.1/lib/ocaml for the same reason. Would you be able to either explain the rationale behind the install structure, or point me to the relevant discussion on a mailing list somewhere?

Many thanks,

Jon

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