similar to: debian-xen git workflow

Summary: I have tried the packaging-only repo and I really don't like it at all. I don't know how anyone copes with this - such hard work! IMO we should switch to git-debrebase. (As an alternative, if you don't trust git-debrebase because it's my own tool, gbp pq would be better, too, even though it's not as good as git-debrebase.) Particularly, now that we have more people

Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: git workflow, redux"): > On 08/23/2018 08:07 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I think git-debrebase is going to be easier for all these things than > > the current approach. > > Ok, let's try it! Thanks a lot for doing the above writeup. Great, thanks. (I hope it's OK that I have snipped most of your responses to the discussion,

I have now finished totally rewriting the Xen package in Debian, from scratch. Amazingly as soon as I got a package which was lintian-clean and would install, it worked first time ! I have generated 18 patches to go upstream which I have sent to xen-devel. There are two more, xenstore ABI patches, which need a bit of tidying up. There is still room for improvement but it is now clearly ready

Knorrie and I just discussed our plans for sid and buster, on the phone. Here's my notes of the discussion. Plan is to upload Knorrie's 4.11 packages to experimental, to make them more public, while we fix the bugs in them. There's a list of Salsa issues and the BTS bugs list. This duplication is not ideal. We agreed that new things should go to the BTS. For now we'll keep

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:44:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:58:19AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > Ok great. Since I'm not using (and probably not going to use) the > > multi-stage multiboot things, this is harder for me to help with. > > With any luck I should be able to work that bit out myself, since I > think stable's Xen

I'm just dumping all I got in here, after initial feedback we can see how to organize todo's around it. tl;dr: * Does not upgrade cleanly from 4.8 packages, so we have to prevent this from entering testing until we fix that. * Live migration is broken, explodes with memory allocation errors. ---- >8 ---- 1. Build packages * I have built salsa/master using pbuilder targeting sid.

Package: xen-utils-common Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a server with a large number of domUs set to auto-start. For the first time I have booted it with all of them needing to start from cold, but the xendomains service only got part way through. syslog showed nothing notable about the domains starting? Apr 16 14:57:45 snaps xendomains[4631]: Starting

This is awesome! What needs to be done before this can make it to unstable? I’d love to help if there’s anything I can do. Stephen On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:00 PM Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org> wrote: > On 10/05/2018 08:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have now finished totally rewriting the Xen package in Debian, from > > scratch. Amazingly as soon as I got a

To: Debian xen and kernel team list, Ian Jackson Cc: Stefan Bader, maintainer of xen packages in Ubuntu Hi all, Short version: Hi! I'd like to help with the Xen packaging in Debian. Long version: Q: Who are you? How are you related to Debian an the Xen project? A: Hi, I'm Hans van Kranenburg, nickname Knorrie, I live in the Netherlands. I'm a Debian user since 2002, and have been

FYI I will have an upload ready RSN. Where should I send it ? Matthew Vernon has offered to test my amd64 binaries. I will test the i386 packages myself. Ian.

Package: xen-utils-common Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u1 Severity: normal With SE Linux it's desirable to give utilities and daemons the minimum privileges. That includes not permitting general utilities to create directories under /var/run. I think it would be best if /var/run/xen-hotplug was created by an init script such as /etc/init.d/xen (or by systemd-tmpfiles when using systemd units).

Hi Ian, after our conversation on IRC in #debian-xen today, I updated the packaging to the latest 4.10-stable commit (since there's no 4.10.1 release yet) and smoke-tested the package on a testing/unstable dom0 running a PVHv2 guest. Can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10 package to Debian unstable? The work which has been done to arrive at this point from the

Package: src:xen Version: 4.11.1-1 Currently, these are rdepends: -$ apt-cache rdepends libxenmisc4.11 libxenmisc4.11 Reverse Depends: libxen-dev xen-utils-4.11 collectd qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon collectd-core It's on the wishlist to start doing buster-backports for Xen. If the user has a cluster of servers and can make use of live migrate, then this allows the user to

Hai guys, I've updated the Debian Stretch package for Samba 4.10.2, 4.9.6 and 4.8.11. Repo info : https://apt.van-belle.nl Build logs: http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/Buildlogs/stretch/ Quick repo setup: Optional: apt-get install apt-transport-https Import my public key: wget -O - http://apt.van-belle.nl/louis-van-belle.gpg-key.asc | apt-key add - # Example repo stretch samba

Ian Jackson writes ("64bit PV guest breakout [XSA-213]"): > Source: xen > Version: 4.4.1-9 > Severity: important > Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream > > See > https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-213.html Ian Jackson writes ("grant transfer allows PV guest to elevate privileges [XSA-214]"): > Source: xen > Version: 4.4.1-9 > Severity:

Moritz Muehlenhoff writes ("Re: Xen package security updates for jessie 4.4, XSA-213, XSA-214"): > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have fixed these in stretch but the jessie package remains unfixed. > > I think I may be able to find some backports somewhere. Would that be > > useful ? Is anyone else working on this ? > >

Hi Colin, Thanks for the quick reply. On 1/5/19 8:04 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 01:02:47AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: >> In december, Xen PVH support has been committed in grub master: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel at gnu.org/msg28125.html >> >> The last pieces needed in the Linux kernel to boot PVH with grub2 landed >>

Package: src:xen Version: 4.8.1~pre.2017.01.23-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid buster User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-7 Please keep this issue open in the bug tracker for the package it was filed for. If a fix in another package is required, please file a bug for the other package (or clone), and add a block in this package. Please keep the issue open until the package can

Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: Plans for buster"): > This can be done from tag debian/4.11.1_pre+1.733450b39b-1_exp1 (which > is right now the same as the master branch). Thanks for doing all this work. I have just sent it to experimental. I did some reviewing and diffing. I have some comments, or, at least, things I noticed. None of them were IMO blockers for experimental.

Hi Debian Grub maintainer, In december, Xen PVH support has been committed in grub master: https://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel at gnu.org/msg28125.html The last pieces needed in the Linux kernel to boot PVH with grub2 landed in Linux 4.20. I asked our kernel team to carry those patches on top of the Linux 4.19 kernel that is going to ship in Buster, and that wish was granted: