Proposal for adding kernel <-> xen dependency

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu May 4 11:52:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:25 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > > why would a userspace optional thing force a xen kernel?
> > 
> > Because the userspace thing needs that kernel to be used?
> 
> similar to reiserfstools needs a reiserfs to do something?
> 
> (and a dependency on a kernel to be installed doesn't mean that kernel
> is running, which is another issue ;)

And conflict with all kernel that provide different Xen NVR
will mean that whenever you have two kernels installed and they have
different versions, even if you are running the one with the matching
Xen interface, xen can't be installed at all.

	Jakub




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