Re: Building XCP Debian packages: what sources or repo to use?

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>]

I'm not an xapi guru, but I could point for few moments:

1) XAPI do a lot of system() calls with parsing of output. For example,
if you upgrade centos by yum update (with uncommented default centos
mirror) you will break sr-create command (due upgrade of lvm2 package).
If you put different version of binary or put it to different location
you can break some of functionality.

2) there is a bunch of supportive packages for xapi:

xapi-squeezed-0.2-unknown
xapi-www-0.2-unknown
xapi-core-0.2-unknown
xapi-libs-fe-0-unknown
openvswitch-1.0.2-82.1943
kernel-xen-2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs1.0.0.311.170586
xen-hypervisor-3.4.2-1.0.0.700.20051
xen-tools-3.4.2-1.0.0.700.20051
xen-device-model-1.0.0-250.7380
stunnel-4.15-2.el5.1.xs647
likewise-open-libs-5.4.0.50446-1xs74.36
likewise-open-lsass-5.4.0.50446-1xs74.36
xsconsole-1.0.0-358
xenserver-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL.xs
PyPAM-0.4.2-3.xs647

(not sure it full list), and xapi heavily depends on them.

You will need to patch xapi to make it compatible with native debian
binaries and do this for every xapi-specific package too.

I have some weak intention to switch from centos to debian, but I very
afraid of amount of problems, glitches, race conditions and others...

В Срд, 04/05/2011 в 01:41 +0800, Thomas Goirand пишет:
> ----- Original message -----
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 02:47 +0100, Todd Deshane wrote:
> > > I think that being able to install an XCP system from package is a
> > > long goal anyway, so getting a jump on it in Debian is a great idea.
> > 
> > I think so too, but it's worth highlighting that XCP on Debian is far
> > more than a standard .deb packaging exercise, I expect there will be
> > plenty of actual development effort required to actually make it work.
> 
> Like what? I don't get what is XCP if not few
> more packages on top of Xen. Can you explain?
> 
> > xen-api@ is the correct list for this sort of question.
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> Thanks, I'll ask there then.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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