From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Problems "upgrading" 3.1 to 3.2? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:48:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20071219154818.GF2973@redhat.com> References: <200712191543.48748.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712191543.48748.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Mark Williamson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "dan.magenheimer@oracle.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:43:47PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote: > > > Yeah, it'll be some kind of "residue" problem. Unfortunately there's not > > > a particularly clean way to uninstall Xen. > > > > 'make uninstall' from the root of a Xen repository should do it. If it's > > not comprehensive then I'd like patches. > > Well, I have a number of problems in mind: it's not necessarily so simple if > you're mixing installs from different versions or if you don't have the > original repository around. Obviously, recreating the original repository is > always doable and ought to work. But it seemed worth mentioning in case one > of these was tripping things up. > > The other problem wrt uninstalls is that I'm not sure the binary tarball has > an uninstall option (?) because it omits the makefile. If that's the case > then that is probably something that does merit a patch. If you really care about cleanly un-installing Xen then this is what packaging tools are for - RPM / Dpkg. Its very easy to update Fedora Xen RPMs to new Xen-unstable snapshots - just drop in a new tar.gz and update the changeset number in the spec. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|