Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add a way to disable xen's udev script.

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/08/2011 08:49 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > chmod -x and rm would do the same things (provided udev isn't unhappy),
> > but modifying files of package A from another package B is highly
> > frowned upon.
> Dropping down a file which unilaterally disables critical behaviour in
> another package requires isn't really much better, you might as well
> just add a Conflicts: and be done with it.
Unfortunately that's not possible since all the libs that we need to 
depend on (libxenctrl, etc.) in xen-utils-4.1 depends on the package 
that install the udev rules (xen-utils-common).
There's more than likely a perfect way to splice the packages to make it 
a package issue only, however I'm not terribly interested in putting 
more efforts than a *trivial* 1 line change.
> In
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/2011-April/003362.html the Debian 
> package maintainer proposed a scheme by which xm and xl could coexist. Adding 
> "xapi" (or whichever other toolstack you are considering) as an option to that 
> scheme and having all the sets of hotplug scripts check that their scheme is active seems 
> like a reasonable solution to me.
>
> Of course in the longer term we should attempt to converge the hotplug
> scripts of the different toolstacks into a single set of (e.g. libxl
> based) scripts.
Or realize that those scripts are an abomination in the first place and 
get rid of them.
--
Vincent

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