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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Apr 18, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > > Here's a xen-new spell since people have been asking for it.  I can't
> > > commit it right now but I want to push it out to people and move on to scm
> > > stuff again.
> > >
> > > Caveats:
> > > - it's WIP
> > > - you need to edit grub yourself, see the xen docs
> > > - I know both versions compile but haven't booted anything with them yet
> > > - if you say you want to configure the kernels it will build the kernels
> > >  twice, this is because I want to use their makefile as much as possible
> > >  to avoid the breakage the existing xen spells encountered
> > > - no attempt is made to merge in your existing kernel configs or store the
> > >  ones you create (though the full xen build directory is persistent and
> > >  they're in there)
> > > - see the WIP file for more
> >
> > Is this planned to replace the current xen/xen-kernel packages or will
> > those be removed or updated to work again?
>
> I don't really have a desire to try to make the existing ones work again
> with the way they're built.  I think this new one will be more
> maintainable, though it has some rough edges.  Some of them can be smoothed
> over, others probably should be left alone unless someone wants to make the
> spell do hairy things and then patch it up whenever an upstream release
> breaks that (which is where the existing ones failed).  If we're going to
> be hairy I'd prefer a way to make the kernel piece integrated into the
> linux spell... that's looking more feasible with things like the latest
> release of xen (3.0.2).
>
> Anyway, we can see how it goes.  It's in devel p4 now, depending on what
> kind of feedback I get on it I may go ahead and put it in test since it
> does work, it just isn't as complete as it might be.

If this works out we'll then deprecate xen/xen-kernel in favour of
this then. ;)

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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