RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure

["Ian Tobin" <itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The question is if doing an upgrade do you actually have to uninstall
the files? I mean if its an upgrade then wouldn't just untaring the dist
directory and running the install thing work?

thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 15 May 2007 15:36
To: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Cc: Ian Tobin; Mike Wright; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure

[snip a ton of old stuff]
> The INSTALL script you mention works without the build directory in 
> place? That's a bit.... odd.

Not at all. It just takes the files in the "dist" directory (which is a
copy of what's been produced in the individual build directories, e.g.
xen.gz, qemu-dm, vmlinuz, kernel modules, hvmloader, etc, etc), and
copies it out to wherever it goes. Have a look at "dist/install.sh".
It's not complicated, it essentially just copies the files from
"dist/install" to whatever destination you specify (defualt is "/"). 
> 
> > If you're not familiar with it, I'd like to point out that 
> there is a
> > INSTALL script in the distribution directory which can be used to
> > install the resulting product of the make (which is what I described
> > earlier in this thread). 
> >   
> I use Makefiles and RPM's to support full-blown package management, 
> version management, conflict reports, etc., etc., etc. Writing all of 
> that into an installer or uniinstaller script is quite a lot of work.
> 
> I recognize that not every OS has this kind of package 
> management, and 
> prefer to build on the fly.

Great if you have the environment to build the RPM, but if you take the
xen-unstable.hg repo, it doesn't come with spec-files to make RPM's
[afaics]. 

Obviously, most distributions will use some sort of packagemanagement,
and that solves most of those problems. 

--
Mats
> 
> 
> 




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