Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 development update (October update). RC1 on 24th

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:24:35PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 17, konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > 
> > > > by Boris and build and Makefile changes by Andrew (the ones by Olaf
> > > > are all in?).
> > > 
> > > These are the outstanding changes in my own for-4.5 queue:
> > > 
> > >  pick 590db9e tools/mkrpm: improve version.release handling
> > >  pick 3495d6c Separate runtime debug output from debug symbols   (v3)
> > >  pick cde4d39 Add configure --with-extra-cflags-*
> > >  pick e47f208 tools/hotplug: use configure --sysconfdir result
> > >  pick f8b2e49 tools/hotplug: fix systemd service files for dom0
> > >  pick 13a834b tools/hotplug: update dependency of var-lib-xenstored.mount
> > > maybe 8a52b89 tools/hotplug: add helper script to visualize systemd 
> > > dependencies
> > >  pick c0af9cc README: remove references to unneeded python helpers
> > >  pick b2ee641 Add INSTALL file
> > 
> > The INSTALL file and the 'fix' are of course OK.
> > 
> > For the rest, can you explain what would happen if we did not include them
> > in Xen 4.5?
> 
> Without "tools/mkrpm: improve version.release handling" it is difficult
> to update the xen.rpm because the Release: number is always zero.
> 'rpmball' is a new feature in 4.5, it should work properly right form
> the start.

OK.
> 
> 
> Without v3 of "Separate runtime debug output from debug symbols" the
> hypervisor, parts of ocaml and qemu are still built with -g even with
> 'make debug_symbols=n'.  There is no agreement how the default should be
> set, but thats outside the scope of this patch.

So lets defer this to figure out the agreement.
> 
> 
> Without "Add configure --with-extra-cflags-*" the buildsystem will pick
> "random" environment variables for CFLAGS. Now that we have the tools in
> place they they should be set once with configure to have consistent
> results if make is called from different shells.
> I will send v2 of this patch to handle also --without-extra-cflags, this
> makes the code consistent with other usage of AC_ARG_WITH() in that file.

OK. Sounds like a good candidate.
> 
> Without "tools/hotplug: use configure --sysconfdir result" the newly
> installed runlevel scripts will use system config files instead of the
> files installed after configure --sysconfdir=/odd/path. This is a bug.

OK, so that is of course OK if the maintainers are OK with the bug-fix.
> 
> 
> Olaf

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