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Re: [Xen-devel] Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2?

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2?
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:48:18 +0000
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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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