Pkg xen devel - Feb 2006 - how to package hypervisor-pae?

Hi,

I have just looked at the xen source, because I want to finish my work from 
yesterday and have the hypervisor-pae really build & packaged.

It seems so that we have two possibilities to do this:

1) create another dpatch that would patch xen/Makefile in order to have other 
filenames for the hypervisor when the pae-flag is set.

the advanced would be, that if we use diffrent filenames for the normal and 
the pae-hypervisor we wouldn't need the conflict in debian/control, because 
both packages would be installable at the same time, and if the user has for 
both hypervisors a seperate menu.lst entry in grub he could easiely switch 
between both versions.

2) we do it with hooks in debian/rules and install the pae enabled version not 
in debian/install for packaging, but in debian/install-pae or something like 
this. by doing this, we could add a second dh_install call just for the 
pae-hypervisor (which gets installed from debian/instlall-pae then).

the advantage would be, that no patching of upstream is required, but then we 
still need the conflict in debian/control, because both hypervisor would 
consist files with exactly the same name.

I would think posiblity no. 1 is the better way to go... If the list agrees, I 
will try to create a patch for that today.

when the normal hpyervisor is called: xen-3.0.1.gz (and xen.gz) would it be ok 
to call the xen-pae hypervisor: xen_pae-3.0.1.gz (and xen_pae.gz) ?

--Ralph

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:41:23PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,
> I would think posiblity no. 1 is the better way to go... If the list
agrees, I
> will try to create a patch for that today.
> 
I agree with this... giving people the possibility to install the pae version
and try it without removing their normal "working" hypervisor seems
really nice!
> when the normal hpyervisor is called: xen-3.0.1.gz (and xen.gz) would it be
ok
> to call the xen-pae hypervisor: xen_pae-3.0.1.gz (and xen_pae.gz) ?
> 
Fine for me! 

Guido