Re: [Xen-devel] Minimum python version for xen-4.1.1

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

--On 23 November 2011 11:18:25 +0000 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 11:11 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > Does xen-4.1.1 really require python 2.7 (as per Ubuntu packaging) or
> > will it actually work on python 2.6? I am trying to backport it to
> > an Ubuntu LTS version and would rather not have to bring in Python 2.7
> > if possible.
> The README says 2.3 or later. I don't think we rely on 2.7 specifically
> and we would take patches to fix it for earlier versions as necessary
> (although perhaps we would bump the 2.3 to e.g. 2.4 or 2.5 if that
> turned out to be easier, depends on the prevalence of 2.4+ in distro
> stable releases).
Thanks.

Having worked out how to do this, I found someone else has already
done it. Reference for the mailing list:
http://crypt47.blogspot.com/2011/08/xen-411-on-ubuntu-lucid-1004-lts-easy.ht
ml

--
Alex Bligh

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