[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#968965: Bug#968965: xen: FTBFS woes in sid

[Hans van Kranenburg]

On 11/20/20 8:02 PM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> So,
> 
> On 9/21/20 4:16 PM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
>> [...]
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> 
> dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for)
> "usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xen-*/boot/*" (tried in ., debian/tmp)
> 
> dh_install: warning: xen-utils-4.14 missing files:
> usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xen-*/boot/*
> dh_install: error: missing files, aborting
> 
> ---- >8 ----
> 
> I can only find CONFIG_PV_SHIM=n in the build log. What is going on
> here? Attached is the build log.

Ok, this probably has something to do with upstream commit 8845155c83
"pvshim: make PV shim build selectable from configure" (Xen 4.12) which
causes the shim not to be built during our i386 build any more.

In Xen 4.11 we have commit a516bddbd3 "tools/firmware/Makefile:
CONFIG_PV_SHIM: enable only on x86_64". The part of this file that this
patch changes is removed in the above mentioned commit.

Because all of this is such a big mess, I just tried to revert
8845155c83 and then do 0b898ccc2 and a516bddbd3 on top of the previous
code again.

And, yes, now it goes through, and ./usr/lib/xen-4.14/boot/xen-shim is
included in the i386 package. At least we have a workaround now.

> My WIP branch is here (including the make-patches commit, it's ready to
> build). I also forwarded the thing to latest stable-4.14.

Again at:

> https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/commits/knorrie/4.14/

I'll rerun both the amd64 and i386 build here and actually boot the
amd64 packages in a test environment. If success, then I'm going to try
put this in experimental again so we can see if it all succeeds on the
buildds.

Then after final review we should be able to upload to unstable
beginning next week.

K