[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#668641: Bug#668641: Please add a symlink /usr/lib/xen -> /usr/lib/xen-default

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:16:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:24:28PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > we're patching libvirt (incompletely atm) and also virtinst to cope with
> > Debian's derivation from upstream to put things into
> > /usr/lib/xen-<version> managed via alternatives to /usr/lib/xen-default.
> 
> Packages need to use the hypervisor version if they need to know this
> directory.

I don't understand. The request is to make /usr/lib/xen equivalent to
/usr/lib/xen-default. What would be the drawback?
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> > Can such a link be added? This would (among other things) resolve
> > #661849. The alternative would be to patch the 164 test cases.
> 
> There is no path needed to find qemu-dm. Even Xen upstream managed to
> fix this.
> 
> Bastian
> 
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