Re: [Xen-users] [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 22/05/2014 11:46, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 18/05/2014 20:11, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>> Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>> Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>>>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> > Hi waldi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon?
>>>>> Upstream have
>>>>> > released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final
>>>>> version next
>>>>> > week (I've been out of the office for a bit, so I don't know the
>>>>> precise
>>>>> > state, but that was the last I heard).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I would like to send patches to enable the build on ARM but this
>>>>> relies
>>>>> > on 4.4. I'm happy to do the upgrade first and send you patches
>>>>> if you
>>>>> > would prefer.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the meantime 4.4.0 has been released and it seems like Stefan has
>>>>> done most of the hard work to update the packaging in Ubuntu. I'd
>>>>> like
>>>>> to get this into Jessie sooner rather than later. Do you object to me
>>>>> working on this at some point?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian.
>>>> Yes Ubuntu xen 4.4 packages can be a start, I think also that is
>>>> good remove more debian/patches possible to make faster future
>>>> updates.
>>>> I already reported here:
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1297224
>>>> At least 3 pathes can be already removed and use configure values
>>>> instead.
>>>> Probably there are also other things that can be fixed and/or
>>>> improved upstream instead always have and maintain dozen of distros
>>>> patches.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help about debian packages and sorry for my band
>>>> english.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are there some news about new xen packages for debian?
>>>
>>> I did some small improvements to latest xen's ubuntu packages:
>>> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen
>>>
>>> If you have not had the time I could try to update the debian
>>> packages by making a first draft and testing them (excluding test
>>> the arm hypervisor on which I have not sufficient knowledge).
>>>
>>> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.
>>>
>>
>> I did a draft of xen 4.4 packages for debian starting from
>> 4.4.0-0ubuntu5 plus some changes.
>> I included the close of some bugs in changelog but surely there will
>> be more resolved to be added.
>> I tested build on sid and was successfull.
>> During the week when I have time I'll make the buildon a clean sid
>> and I'll test thepackages.
>> I'll probably do other improvements.
>>
>> The draft I did with all changes are here:
>> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/debian-next
>>
>> Any feedback is appreciated.
>>
>
> I could not try it on sid because it is not installed sid on my test
> Dell PE server due to a kernel3.14 regression.
> I tried it on wheezy for now:
> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/wheezy-backports

Now that kernel bug is solved I tested it also on sid and it works.
https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/debian-next
Is there any debian maintainer can update the xen's packages on debian
unstable?
I think the my draft should be a good start.

Thanks for any reply.

>
> ------------------------------------
> Result of my tests:
> ---
> Tested:
> dom0 architecture amd64 on intel cpu: ok
> domUs pv and hvm (with pv drivers): ok
> xl: ok
> pygrub: ok
> vnc: ok
> spice: ok
> usbredir: ok
> save/restore: ok
> qdisk: ok
> ---
> Not tested:
> dom0 architectures i386, armhf and arm64
> xend/xm
> ocaml (with xapi)
> ---
> ------------------------------------
>
> I added xen-users to cc if someone want help me to test and improve
> the packages.
> Below there are some notes for easy and fast test the packages on
> wheezy, even if the comments are in italian the used commands should
> be enough, important notes are seabios install from backports before
> creating the xen packages and installqemu after recompiling it with
> the latest xen libraries.
>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> CREARE PACCHETTI XEN E TUTTI GLI ALTRI UFFICIALI DA BACKPORTS
>> -------------------------
>> aptitude install build-essential git devscripts
>> ---
>> # Attivazione backports
>> vi /etc/apt/sources.list # Aggiungere le seguenti righe
>> deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free
>> contrib
>> deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
>> non-free contrib
>> ---
>> # ! Installare pacchetti seabios da backports
>> aptitude -t wheezy-backports install seabios
>> # Installare altre dipendenze per la build di xen
>> aptitude install python-dev bcc gcc-multilib e2fslibs-dev iasl
>> ipxe-qemu libaio-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-dev liblzma-dev
>> libncurses5-dev libpci-dev libyajl-dev libssl-dev pkg-config uuid-dev
>> zlib1g-dev ocaml-nox dh-ocaml ocaml-findlib
>> # Installare dipendenze runtime xen
>> aptitude install gawk
>> ---
>> wget
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xen/xen_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
>> tar -xpzf xen_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
>> git clone https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen.git
>> cd pkg-xen/
>> git checkout wheezy-backports
>> cp debian/ ../xen-4.4.0/
>> cd ../xen-4.4.0/
>> debuild -i -b -us -uc
>> cd ..
>> dpkg -i libxen-4*.deb libxen-dev*.deb libxenstore3*.deb
>> xen-hypervisor-4.4*.deb xenstore-utils*.deb xen-utils-*.deb
>> ---
>> # Installare dipendenze da bpo
>> aptitude -t wheezy-backports install libusbredirparser-dev
>> libusb-1.0-0-dev libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev
>> # Installare altre dipendenze
>> aptitude install device-tree-compiler libasound2-dev libattr1-dev
>> libbluetooth-dev libbrlapi-dev libcap-dev libcap-ng-dev
>> libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfdt-dev libiscsi-dev libpulse-dev libsasl2-dev
>> libsdl1.2-dev libssh2-1-dev libvdeplug-dev xfslibs-dev libjpeg8-dev
>> libpng12-dev
>> # Ricompilare pacchetti qemu da backports, purtroppo necessario per
>> librerie xen differenti
>> wget
>> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/qemu_2.0.0+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
>> wget
>> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/qemu_2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1.debian.tar.gz
>> tar -xpJf qemu_2.0.0+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
>> tar -xpzf qemu_2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1.debian.tar.gz
>> mv debian/ qemu-2.0.0+dfsg/
>> cd qemu-2.0.0+dfsg/
>> debuild -i -b -us -uc
>> dpkg -i qemu-system-x86*.deb qemu-system-common*.deb
>> qemu-keymaps*.deb qemu-utils*.deb
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
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