Re: [Xen-devel] Xen4.2 debian packaging

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 17:13 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> The xen debian packaging currently produces a debian package of what
> 'make install' would produce. This includes a fair amount of development
> only stuff, puts the hypervisor in /boot etc.

Xen make deb target is intended as a developer convenience package
(essentially to allow a cleaner uninstall) and is not intended as a full
user focused package.

> This packaging is not used by Ubuntu (I don't know about debian).

It's not expected to be, both of these have good proper packages of Xen.

Ian.

> 
> I have a hack:
>  
> https://github.com/abligh/xen-4.2-live-migrate/commit/ffbfc9394a74d0344be5982a5fed9aa9fa28ad74
> 
> that produces a 'minideb'. The idea was to put in the minimum of userspace
> code that would be required to run xen4.2 and xl. This excludes the
> hypervisor which if I were less lazy would be in a separate package,
> as you don't need that on disk when you are network booting.
> 
> Is there any interest in taking this into mainline if I clear it up?
> It's just another make target (make minideb) so is pretty unintrusive.
> 



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