WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Unofficial Xen 2.0 debian packages kinda broken

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 19:07, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> Brian Wolfe wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 09:31, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> >>  What I have considered doing for a while is to make wrapper around
> >> make-kpkg and the kernel directory with a curses UI that would
> >> lessen confusion about what operations can be done next and what
> >> options need to be passed to all commands and all that. A bit like
> >> how debian-installer looks like.
> >
> > Interesting... I wonder if that could be adapted to provide an
> > interface for xlb as well. If you write it, how much trouble would
> > it be to have it just parse a menu/action/dep config file to know
> > what to present? Or is there a package out there like this in
> > existance already?
> 
> Well, making the tool is not high on my to-do list, so no need to
> consider these matters yet too thoroughly.
> 
> Apparently somebody else has thought about something similar as I
> stumbled upon this in the experimental debian archive:
> 
> Package: sourcerer-kernel-builder
> Description: automatically build new custom kernels on source upgrades
>  Sourcerer-kernel-builder tracks changes in the kernel-source,
>  kernel-patch and kernel-modules packages and rebuilds kernel-images
>  with a custom configuration whenever packages relevant to it change.
>  Sourcerer-kernel-builder also provides a frontend to manage those
>  custom configuration alowing users to choose what patches and modules
>  they want included.
>  ...
> 

Nift. Though i'm aiming xlb as more of a platform-agnostic tool with
some nifts for specific distros. 

> > My goal is to get xlb working enough that I can then use it to
> > generate unofficial kernel images that have options set as closely
> > to the official debian kernel-image packages as possible.
> 
> Standard Xen kernel images would be really nice, yes.
> 
> > side note, I just had some of the debian packaging specifics related
> > to versions explained to me by Keybuk on irc.oftc.net
> > #debian-devel. I've been mucking the package versions even worse
> > than I thought. sooo I *think* I have the version stamps figured out
> > finally. :)
> >
> > xen_2.0-0.$(bk_patchlevel)-$(deb_version)
> > Once in stable mode, it'll become xen_2.0-$(deb_version)
> 
> Um. Can you have two dashes in package versions? I thought there was
> only one dash and it was to separate the debian version from the
> upstream version.

You can have a dash in the upstream IF and only if you have a debian
version appended with the dash.

> 
> If you wish to have the bk_patchlevel in the upstream version part and
> still get the upgrade nicely, I think one needs to do the ugly ugly
> format used by several packges.
> 
> 1.999+2.0.bk.1.1092-1
> 
> But like said, these aren't the official packages yet, so versioning
> doesn't really matter - 2.0-1 should be the first official package and
> that matters.

*nod* I'm goign to go with the above mentioned plan unless someone
throws a snit fit. :) It'll work, and it'll let people know exactly what
bk revision it is since there isn't any other versioning besides 1.2,
2.0, unstable.....

When 2.0 is official, I'll stick with the versions and just create a new
debian/ repo for them.

> 
> -- Naked
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal
> Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us
> Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more
> http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal
Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us
Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more
http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl
_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>