Re: [Xen-users] Building Xen Linux on SuSE 9.3

[Robbie Dinn <robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Couchman wrote:
>                                                                And I think I 
> understand what you're saying - you must have the source for the architecture 
> for which you're trying to build the image.  That makes sense.  What I don't 
> understand is this: if that's the case, why is the kernel source included in the 
> kernel-source RPM already patched for XEN?  If you're not supposed to be able to 
> build it for the XEN architecture, why does the source include the patches that 
> make it possible?
My guess: It did work at some snapshot in time, but it has broken since
then. And then SuSE find that they have ship a kernel with security
fixes and they can't wait while the Xen stuff gets fully merged into
kernel-default again.

Do you know the joke about the traveller asking directions?

Traveller: How do I get from here [C] to [A].
Farmer: You don't want to start from here, you want to go from [B]

where [C]=lost and substitting place names of your choice for [A] and [B].

In our case we have

[A]=kernel-xen-2.6.11.4-21.9.i586.rpm
[B]=kernel-source-2.6.4-21.9.src.rpm+kernel-xen-2.6.11.4-21.9.nosrc.rpm
[C]=kernel-source-2.6.11.4-21.9.rpm


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