[Fedora-xen] xen-unstable => 3.2, binary packages

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:24:08PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Chris Lalancette writes ("Re: [Fedora-xen] xen-unstable => 3.2, binary packages"):
> > Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion but I'm not sure
> > > this reasoning makes sense.  Certainly there's an ABI compatibility
> > > requirement but all that means is that you would want to upgrade both
> > > the hypervisor and the dom0 toolstack together.
> > 
> > In theory, yes.  However, the problem ends up being that we can't
> > force people to reboot to the new kernel, so what happens in
> > practice is that people update their kernel + userspace API, don't
> > reboot, and then wonder why things don't work anymore.
> 
> Right.
> 
> Having separate 3.2 packages available from a different place would
> avoid that problem because a user would have to go out of their way to
> choose to get it, rather than just taking the updates in the usual
> way.
> 
> So would it be best for Xensource to build and publish those packages
> based on Fedora 8 srpms or do you have somewhere at Fedora for this
> kind of thing (effectively a backport) ?

No, we don't have any separate backports repository, so hosting it on xen.org
would be the best bet. 

Regards,
Dan.
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