From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
Cc: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:54:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1A82167.621A%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45827DE4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On 15/12/06 09:50, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> I can't generally see the value of 'installing' if all that means is just
> copying. I'm
> doing this with basically all other components I use non-distro versions of,
> without
> problems. Xen is the first one to cause me real headaches here.
>
> Also, the 'few hardcoded paths' seem to be scattered all around the various
> tools,
> so it doesn't look like a rather simple job to (a) spot them all and (b) fix
> them.
It's been pointed out that the check script is there for you to run from
your own installation wrappers if you want to. Any change to default
behaviour will require us to distinguish 'make dist' and 'make install'
inside the tools directory. That's a 3.0.5 build-system issue imo.
-- Keir
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-15 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 16:23 [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2) Jan Beulich
2006-12-14 16:47 ` Ewan Mellor
2006-12-14 16:59 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-14 17:04 ` Ewan Mellor
2006-12-14 17:11 ` Ewan Mellor
2006-12-15 8:22 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 9:33 ` Ewan Mellor
2006-12-15 9:49 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-15 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 9:54 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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