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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 13:12 +0000, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 12:44 +0000 on 25 Feb (1361796242), Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, AP wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --On 22 February 2013 17:57:47 +0000 Stefano Stabellini
> > > > <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I think it could still be very useful to many people. If not on the
> > > >> xen-unstable repository, it should still be published somewhere.
> > > >> Maybe a link on the wiki or a blog article?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to tidy it up a bit if people think it is useful, and publish
> > > > it wherever. From memory the impact on the main code base is a 3 line
> > > > change to the Makefile, and doubtless I could minimise the other files
> > > > too.
> > > 
> > > This would be very useful for people trying to create their own
> > > minimal Xen image. I have been struggling with this for the past few
> > > days.
> > > 
> > > http://xen.markmail.org/thread/dac5kkuliky5373l
> > 
> > If there is a need for it and clearly the upstream Debian maintainers
> > don't care either way, why shouldn't we add the minideb target to our
> > own build system? If we are going to have a deb target anyway, we might
> > as well make it a useful one...
> 
> Hrmn.  AFAICT what's really wanted here is a set of Xen 4.2 packages for
> Debian/Ubuntu.  That would be much more widely useful, for a similar
> amount of effort.

4.2.0 is already in Debian experimental.

Ian.



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