Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.5 First Release Candidate

[Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:01 +0100, john maclean wrote:
> I've just run the following:-
> 
> mkdir -p ~/dump/Xen
> cd ~/dump/Xen
> hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.5-testing.hg
> 
> Got the source now. Is it safe to hg clone <http://url/for/source> as
> root in a directory such as /usr/src?
> Bit of a silly question I know but this is my first time with hg.

Yes.

> 
> Also is it ok to cp -R  ~/dump/XEN/xen-3.0.5-testing.hg/ /usr/src
> -without- messing anything up? I presume that I've just grabbed the
> source code and that's it.

Yes. Or better yet, go to ~/dump/XEN and type

mv xen-3.0.5-testing.hg /usr/src/

If you want two copies so you have one for working, try 

hg clone xen-3.0.5-testing.hg /usr/src/xen-3.0.5-testing.hg

Best,
--Tim

> 
> 
> On 20/04/07, Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> >
> > > On 4/20/07, john maclean <jayeola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>  Is this available as a d-load, i.e. wgettable? Ready to test on a
> > >>  devel-box but I'm not familiar with hg.
> > >
> > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/hg-cheatsheet.txt
> >
> > which should probably have a intro that says "No, but hg is pretty easy to
> > setup"...
> >
> > that cheatsheet includes the following:
> >
> >     Necessary software
> >     ------------------
> >     Mercurial is available at:
> >       http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
> >
> >     You will also need a Python version >= 2.3
> >
> >
> > ... so it's rather far from "available as a download"... but then, if
> > you're going to build from source, building the mercurial software is
> > failry trivial. (I did it once.)
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> 
> 


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