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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2)

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2)
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:54:47 +0000
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On 15/12/06 09:50, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can't generally see the value of 'installing' if all that means is just
> copying. I'm
> doing this with basically all other components I use non-distro versions of,
> without
> problems. Xen is the first one to cause me real headaches here.
> 
> Also, the 'few hardcoded paths' seem to be scattered all around the various
> tools,
> so it doesn't look like a rather simple job to (a) spot them all and (b) fix
> them.

It's been pointed out that the check script is there for you to run from
your own installation wrappers if you want to. Any change to default
behaviour will require us to distinguish 'make dist' and 'make install'
inside the tools directory. That's a 3.0.5 build-system issue imo.

 -- Keir


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