Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2 01/11] More flexible handling of need-kernel-deb-$flavour host flag

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2 01/11] More flexible handling of 
need-kernel-deb-$flavour host flag"):
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The current behaviour does not account for the need to apply this
> workaround only for particular Debian releases, i.e. Midway will be
> supported just fine in Jessie.
> 
> It also does not allow for kernels from alternative sources other than
> backports (e.g. experimental, although that is hypothetical right
> now).
> 
> The flavour name is actually irrelevant in practice (none of our
> supported arch's need multiple kernel flavours at install time, which
> is all we care about). So omit it from the new scheme.
> 
> The new scheme is "need-kernel-deb-$suite-$altsource", i.e.
> need-kernel-deb-wheezy-backports. Possibly in the future e.g.
> need-kernel-deb-jessie-experimental indicating that the experimental
> kernel is needed on jessie.
> 
> mg-debian-installer-update is modified to download to the new name.

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

But AFAICT this needs the update to be run on the production instance,
and to accompanied by a di version change ?

Ian.

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