Proposal for adding kernel <-> xen dependency

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:09 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:36:20 +0200, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> said:
> 
>    > Hi, Today I saw that installing "xen" does not automatically pull
>    > in kernel-xen0.  Shouldn't that ideally be the case?
> 
> Orthogonal to the dependency issue, we don't have kernel-xen0 packages
> in Rawhide; the GIT tree Xen rebases to (-stable) and the GIT tree the 
> Rawhide kernel rebases to (-git) are two moving targets that aren't 
> going to apply against each other cleanly.  So, we're left without a 
> Xen kernel until we get close enough to a release for someone to care 
> enough to make the patch apply by hand.

> I haven't seen any list discussion about this, so maybe this is a 
> good time for some -- does anyone have plans for getting Xen kernels
> into Rawhide?

until the Xen people get their act together (eg base on -git and not on ancient -stable kernels, and like
actually tries to make any effort to work with upstream) it will be an endless chase without a winner.