On 12/21/2010 05:43 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:16:38PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 12/19/2010 08:48 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:05:19PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> What is happening is that in every other distribution, and when you >> install Xen from source, there's a /usr/lib/xen containing various tools >> and libs that one might need. In Debian, it's made in /usr/lib/xen-4.0 >> for example. > > i think the reason for this is to support multiple concurrant xen installs.
Exactly! But as there's already /etc/alternatives/xen-default pointing to /usr/lib/xen-4.0, I don't understand why there's no /usr/lib/xen by default. It doesn't really make sense to me. >> This creates compatibility issues for some software. Fore example, if >> you want to create a VM with VT-x feature, you would do: >> >> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" >> builder = 'hvm' >> memory = 512 >> device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm' >> >> But in Debian, you are forced into doing: >> >> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-4.0/boot/hvmloader" >> builder = 'hvm' >> memory = 512 >> device_model='/usr/lib/xen-4.0/bin/qemu-dm' >> >> which to me, isn't right. > > to get that to work, you'd need to have symlinks from /usr/lib/xen/boot to > /usr/lib/xen-4.0/boot as well as "bin" and possibly others (possibly using the > alternatives system), rather than a symlink from /usr/lib/xen. Why not using /usr/lib/xen ??? > but i don't think that the symlinks should be handled by xen-qemu-dm, but some > other xen related package, if it was to be decided on at all. I asked Bastian Blank (waldi), and it was refused for a reason that I don't understand. >> But at the end of the day, my thinking is that the symlink creation >> should be removed completely, and left to the administrator of the >> server. I'm not really sure of that though, and I am open to others view >> on this. Please let me know what you think! > > yes, i think the symlink handling should be removed from xen-qemu-dm. Which is why I sent a bug report against my own package! :) > if such a set of symlinks was needed in debian, i'd recommend some sort of > xen-default or xen-common package. > > live well, > vagrant Do you mean "xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64" ? :) Yes, I think it's needed, but it has been REFUSED by other DDs. So, nothing I can do, and now I realize that doing this in my own package isn't a solution either. Which is why I sent this bug report. I have uploaded the fixed version to SID, and I will ask for an unblock tomorrow (or in the following days). Thanks for your comments, Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
