Pkg xen devel - Oct 2012 - My Xen package plans/thoughts/ideas for Jessie

Waldi,

There's a few things I'm intending to look at for the Xen packaging in
Jessie, which I thought it might be useful to share with you.

If there's anything on this list you explicitly do not want done please
let me know so I don't waste my time, likewise if there are any which
you intend to work on yourself. Otherwise I shall tackle these as and
when I get a chance and post patches.

Unordered list:
      * UEFI support. Build and install the necessary hypervisor binary.
        Integrate with bootloaders as necessary.
      * Enable ARM port. Depends on upstream progress of course, but
        once this is in reasonable shape I'd obviously want to enable it
        for armhf and arm64.
      * Toolstack virtual package, split existing package into common,
        xm/xend and xl. xcp-xapi could also provide the virtual package
        allowing only the desired toolstack to be installed.
      * Rejig the tools install targets to allow use of dh_install
        --list-missing or --fail-missing. I'm not sure if this is
        worthwhile but there's a small number of bugs filed about
        missing this and that (e.g. man pages) which might have been
        avoided if we could use these. This might be a case of trying it
        and seeing.
      * There's a handful of normal and minor priority bugs which look
        pretty easy/quick to fix.

Not really a packaging thing but I also wonder how hard it would be to
set up a CIA^WKGB (or similar) bot for pkg-xen.

Ian.
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Ian Campbell
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Ian Campbell
wrote:
>       * UEFI support. Build and install the necessary hypervisor binary.
>         Integrate with bootloaders as necessary.
Can't it use the same binary for UEFI and BIOS like Linux does since a
long time?
>       * Enable ARM port. Depends on upstream progress of course, but
>         once this is in reasonable shape I'd obviously want to enable
it
>         for armhf and arm64.
No problem.
>       * Toolstack virtual package, split existing package into common,
>         xm/xend and xl. xcp-xapi could also provide the virtual package
>         allowing only the desired toolstack to be installed.
Please describe this a bit more.
>       * Rejig the tools install targets to allow use of dh_install
>         --list-missing or --fail-missing. I'm not sure if this is
>         worthwhile but there's a small number of bugs filed about
>         missing this and that (e.g. man pages) which might have been
>         avoided if we could use these. This might be a case of trying it
>         and seeing.
Not sure what you think about. But please notice that the xen package
build both arch-all and other packages, so you can't move it into one
target.

Bastian

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