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RE: [Xen-devel] ANOUNCEMENT: Debian packages for xen built on 2004-08-1

To: James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] ANOUNCEMENT: Debian packages for xen built on 2004-08-19 bk source
From: Brian Wolfe <brianw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:48:28 -0500
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weeeel, I DO have the start of a makefile that will do most of this for
you. I suppose I could be talked into tossing that out as well. ;) No
promises that it will work for you though since it was a one-off script
for myself. 

Brian

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 22:38, James Harper wrote:
> at this stage what would be really useful to me is a way to do the bk
> pull ; make world as normal, but then do a make debian which would
> build me some packages, probably xen0, xenU, xend & xendsv, but not do
> any of the compilation (as it's already been done).
>  
> If I knew the tinyest bit about the debian packaging I could probably
> do this myself, but i don't.
>  
> james
>  
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Brian Wolfe
> Sent: Thu 26/08/2004 3:45 AM
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] ANOUNCEMENT:  Debian packages for xen built on
> 2004-08-19 bk source
> 
> 
> Well, finally I have bit the bullet and cut the debs. :) These are
> probably FULL of bugs, mistakes and outright wrong methods of packaging.
> SO, use at your own risk! If it eats your lunch, sorry!
> 
> http://www.terrabox.com/debian/
> 
> Files: *_1.3-20040819_*.deb
> 
> Notes of interest:
> 
>  If you notice that the packages do NOT contain any XenLinux kernels,
> don't worry. I pakcaged it that way intentionally. WIth the vast array
> of configuration options now possible with XenLinux 2.4 and 2.6 I
> decided that it would make more sense to split XenLinux kernel creation
> and Xen kernel creation into 2 systems.  The XenLinux kernels will be
> creted using the patch sets generated and XenLinux-Builder.
> 
> XenLinux Builder:
> 
> XenLinux-Build 0.1 is also available there. It's a first attempt at
> building a slightly inteligent packager for XenLinux kernels. Right now
> it only creates tarballs. The next version I hope to have it creating
> deb files. It's based on the Debian kernel-source and kernel-patches
> filesets. Anyways, standard bleeding edge warnings apply here as well,
> even though I'm using it to generate my production XenLinux kernels. ;)
> 
> Main Intents:
> 
> a: multiple config source file handling, 
> b: simplify building a XenLinux kernel from the admin's perspective.
> c: separate Xen* guest OS kernel building from the main Xen package.
> d: other reasons I forget I thought of. heh
> 
> TODO: 
> 
> --Create debian style kernel-headers tarball/deb/whatever filesets for
> compiling modules against.
> --Manage specification of 3rd party patch files on the kernel source
> tree.
> --Create deb targets.
> --Create RPM targets.(any volunteers? I'm totally unfamiliar with rpm.)
> --Have the package copy the build environment files to a new location
> via setupXenBuilder script. (preserves pristine original build files in
> usr/share/xen-builder)
> --whatever else makes sense to be handled here. :)
> 
> Comments, questions, gripes, and advice is all welcome on all of the
> packages. :) Patches are definitly more than welcome. I'll eventually
> submit the debian/* file tree from my patchset to the wonderful Xen
> maintainers for inclusion once things look to be stable.
> 
> I'll cut a new set of the latest in the next few days once I see a
> version of Xen that appears to be stable enough to be worth it. :) Gotta
> love a moving target. *grin*
> 
> Laters!
> Brian Wolfe
> TerraBox.com Inc.
> 
> 
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