Re: stable / unstable parallel install?

[aq <aquynh@gmail.com>]

On 5/30/05, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 30 May 2005, at 14:22, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 
> > Is there some easy way to install both 2.x and unstable xen
> > tools at the same machine?  Seems /usr is hardcoded everythere
> > in the tools Makefiles, looks like there is no easy way to put
> > them to different paths (say, prefix /opt/xen2 and /opt/xen3)
> > :-/
> 
> Have you tried a 'make dist' and then e.g., 'cp -a dist/install
> /opt/xen2', then add appropriate paths to the front of PATH,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONPATH?
> 
> 'DESTDIR=/opt/xen2 make install' also ought to work in a similar way.
> 
> Neither of the above is well-tested, but we would expect them to work.
> 

anyway, there is one problem: what if -stable and -unstable use the
same xen0 kernel version? then we cannot have separate directory at
/lib/module/<kernel-version>

regards,
aq