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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2?
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:43:47PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > > Yeah, it'll be some kind of "residue" problem. Unfortunately there's not
> > > a particularly clean way to uninstall Xen.
> >
> > 'make uninstall' from the root of a Xen repository should do it. If it's
> > not comprehensive then I'd like patches.
>
> Well, I have a number of problems in mind: it's not necessarily so simple if
> you're mixing installs from different versions or if you don't have the
> original repository around. Obviously, recreating the original repository is
> always doable and ought to work. But it seemed worth mentioning in case one
> of these was tripping things up.
>
> The other problem wrt uninstalls is that I'm not sure the binary tarball has
> an uninstall option (?) because it omits the makefile. If that's the case
> then that is probably something that does merit a patch.
If you really care about cleanly un-installing Xen then this is what packaging
tools are for - RPM / Dpkg. Its very easy to update Fedora Xen RPMs to new
Xen-unstable snapshots - just drop in a new tar.gz and update the changeset
number in the spec.
Dan.
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