Re: raisin and minios stubdom

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:42:48PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:28:14PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Currently the xen build system has optional support for building a minios
> > > (+needed libraries and tools) based stubdom.
> > > 
> > > What is your opinion about moving support for building this into raisin and
> > > once that is stable drop support in the xen build system?
> > Why? I do like doing 'make' and 'make install' and it doing everything
> > for me.
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Geza
> > > 
> > > 
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> Because it means that xen build needs to download and build a lot of 3PP
> components. Raisin is already designed to do so (it already builds qemu-xen,

If you do 'make src-tarball' it will do that for you - and you can package
all of that in a tarball.

> qemu-traditional, libvirt and a few others). I think building anything
> besides xen proper would fit its scope better.

OK, but that does not square well with RPM build systems. Those are interested
in building just one component (xen+toolstack+its extra pieces). Using
raisin to build everything is not going to fly.

(Also distros like to seperate componets out - so they build qemu-upstream
seperate - which is used by Xen - and they could also do it for MiniOS
if they were spec files for it and such).

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geza
> 

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