Re: [Xen-devel] Xen4.2 debian packaging

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 17:13 +0000 on 22 Feb (1361553221), Alex Bligh wrote:
> > The xen debian packaging currently produces a debian package of what
> > 'make install' would produce. This includes a fair amount of development
> > only stuff, puts the hypervisor in /boot etc.
> > 
> > This packaging is not used by Ubuntu (I don't know about debian).
> 
> Debian also has its own packaging of Xen.
> 
> The 'make deb' target is explicitly not an attempt to package Xen in a
> way that's suitable for deployment -- it's just a way for developers to
> to install a build onto a testbox and cleanly uninstall it later.
> 
> Your minideb seems much more like a 'proper' package to me (with init
> files &c), and I'm inclined to suggest that if Debian's/Ubuntu's own
> packaging for Xen doesn't do what you need you should get involved in
> Debian/Ubuntu to make it so rather than duplicating effort here.
> 
> That said, tools and packaging aren't really my area and the tools
> maintainers may disagree.  I'm just commenting as the person responsible
> for the original make deb target.

I think it could still be very useful to many people. If not on the
xen-unstable repository, it should still be published somewhere.
Maybe a link on the wiki or a blog article?

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