On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:00 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > > --home causes python's distutils to install into
> > > > /usr/lib/python/, while
> > > > --root causes it to install into
> > > > /usr/lib/python$ver/site-packages, which
> > > > is the more correct location.
> > Er, in all packages I have ever used, make dist has given me
> > a tree(which is
> > normally placed into a tar by upstream, and 'dist'ributed,
> > hence the name),
> > that can then be optionally overlayed ontop an already
> > installed system.
>
> Yes, but its quite usual for bpeople to install Xen on a different
> system to which is was built (e.g. our binary install tar file).
> Installing into /usr/lib/python/ means that it'll be found on the module
> search path, whereas /usr/lib/python$ver/site-packages will only work if
> the version is the same.
Mind please that I have no empirical proof, just personal experience and
opinions/preferences expressed to me by admins I know.
I would have to disagree here. If Xen is to be taken seriously in a
commercial environment, then it's going to have to be available as a
dist binary from either redhat, suse, debina, or another top level linux
distro IMHO.
Having to compile things for every machine tends to turn potential users
off that aren't programmers or gentoo/*bsd afficianados from my
experience.
Heck, this is why I stated packaging 1.3 in the first place. I just
couldn't deal with deploying by hand every couple of days. I really
needed it to be automatic as possible.
>
> Do you use the dist directory for your package build? If not, why do you
> care?
>
> If you do, maybe we'll need some flag to change the behaviour. This will
> all be rather more obvious if we can get the debian package build runes
> checked into the xen repo.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
>
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