Pkg xen devel - Jul 2010 - Bug#589176: xen-utils-common: replace gawk with awk in scripts and Depends

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.0.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

I am not a gawk/mawk expert, but I looked carefully at the few uses of
gawk that I saw in /etc/xen/scripts/vtpm-common.sh and network-bridge,
and I did not see anything that was gawk-specific.  It would be nice if
they could be changed to awk and the dependency on gawk removed.

base-files is Essential: yes and it PreDepends: awk.  I am not sure, but
I think this means that other packages do not need an explicit Depends:
awk.  The attached patch does not modify debian/control, but it replaces
gawk with awk in the above two named scripts.

I have not tested the changes in context, as I have no idea what vtpm
is, and can't put network bridge through normal use until bug 588888 is
solved, but I did test the change from network-bridge manually by
extracting the pipeline where gawk was used and trying it with both gawk
and mawk and comparing the results.

...Marvin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23.1       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                      158-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  xenstore-utils            4.0.1~rc3-1    Xenstore utilities for Xen

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

xen-utils-common suggests no packages.

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Marvin Renich wrote:
> Package: xen-utils-common
> Version: 4.0.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> I am not a gawk/mawk expert, but I looked carefully at the few uses of
> gawk that I saw in /etc/xen/scripts/vtpm-common.sh and network-bridge,
> and I did not see anything that was gawk-specific.  It would be nice if
> they could be changed to awk and the dependency on gawk removed.
> 
> base-files is Essential: yes and it PreDepends: awk.  I am not sure, but
> I think this means that other packages do not need an explicit Depends:
> awk.  The attached patch does not modify debian/control, but it replaces
> gawk with awk in the above two named scripts.
> 
> I have not tested the changes in context, as I have no idea what vtpm
> is, and can't put network bridge through normal use until bug 588888 is
> solved, but I did test the change from network-bridge manually by
> extracting the pipeline where gawk was used and trying it with both gawk
> and mawk and comparing the results.
> 
> ...Marvin
I did already a gawk removal work few month ago, and they accepted the
patch upstream (Ian Jackson did IRRC). You can even see it in the Xen
changelog.

What I don't understand is from where "xen-common" upstream source
code
is coming from (the debian/copyright about this is wrong). It seems to
be a sub-set of the xen-4.0 source code (all files in the "xen-common"
Debian source packages are in the "xen" one).

More than that, I don't get why the "xen" Debian source package
doesn't
generate this "xen-utils-common" directly, and why there's the
need of a
2nd source package. If it wasn't the case, then we'd have a
xen-utils-common without gawk.

Maybe Waldi can explain...

Thomas

Marvin Renich wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> Any help with bug 588888 would be appreciated, as that one is keeping me
> from creating my first xen guest.  I think it is just lack of or
> incorrect documentation, and I just need a sample config that uses hvm
> (that really works with xen 4.0).
> 
> ...Marvin
Hi,

Seems to me that you don't have the Qemu part of xen installed, maybe?
Some logs from /var/log/xen would help... If you missed the package, you
need to:

apt-get install xen-qemu-dm-4.0

which I maintain, and that have been accepted to SID just few days ago.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Your message dated Sat, 06 Sep 2014 21:11:47 +0000
with message-id <E1XQNGt-0002et-5G at franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#589176: fixed in xen 4.4.0-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #589176,
regarding xen-utils-common: replace gawk with awk in scripts and Depends
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