[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 06/16] debian/control: Update utils Recommends

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 06:24:44PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 1/2/21 9:30 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Section: admin
> >  Architecture: amd64 arm64 armhf i386
> >  Provides: xen-utils
> >  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python3, xen-utils-common (>= ${source:Version})
> > -Recommends: bridge-utils, libc6-xen [i386], xen-hypervisor-4.14, qemu-system-x86, grub-xen-host [i386 amd64]
> > +Recommends: ovn-host|bridge-utils, libc6-xen [i386], xen-hypervisor-4.14, qemu-system-x86, xen-domu-bootloader|grub-xen-host
> 
> This immediately makes ovn-host the default. We should not do that
> unless there have been a huge amount of improvement in the user
> documentation (e.g. cleaning up the mess that wiki.debian is).

I was unaware order had that level of significance.  Instead use
"bridge-utils|ovn-host"?


> xen-domu-bootloader does not even exist as package. It does not make any
> sense to add it.

The idea is "xen-domu-bootloader" would be a virtual package potentially
provided by several packages.  Ideally "grub-xen-host" would start
providing it.  If/When PyGRUB is broken off of xen-utils-X.YY, then the
PyGRUB package could provide "xen-domu-bootloader".

More notably, "xen-domu-bootloader" could be provided by Xen builds of
EDK2/Tianocore or U-Boot.  I've been advised EDK2/Tianocore can be used
to successfully boot Windows on Xen/ARM.  EDK2/Tianocore may be more
attractive as a bootloader for FreeBSD on amd64 instead of PvGRUB.  I'm
presently trying to see whether U-Boot can get FreeBSD/ARM to boot (this
could be a driver issue for FreeBSD, but there are also hints FreeBSD
prefers device-trees on ARM).

There is also an ordering issue with the two options.  I suspect rather
more OSes can be loaded by EDK2/Tianocore than by PvGRUB, so I'm inclined
to pushing a generic virtual package over PvGRUB.


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