Re: Re: xenning gentoo

[Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 01:12 pm, Scott Mohekey wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> I'm currently in the process of revamping the ebuilds, as they need to 
> be updated to xen-2.0.3 (and soon xen-2.0.4). I'm planning a rewrite 
> such that the kernel ebuilds depend on the xen ebuild, with proper 
> version dependencies included. The idea is, that the xen ebuild will 
> install all of it's source etc into /usr/src/ and from there the kernel 
> ebuilds can use the correct files to patch a pristine kernel source tree 
> into a xen kernel source using the currently installed version of xen. 
> Hopefully it will be automated enough that when you install a new 
> version of xen, new kernel source trees will automatically be created 
> tvia the dependencies in the ebuilds.
> 
> I can still give you a copy of the originals however. They just don't 
> work terribly well with some of the newer versions of xen (the 2.4 
> kernel source tree isn't created correctly).

I would be happy to try out any ebuilds.

-- 
Jon Mason
jdmason@us.ibm.com


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