On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:55 AM, George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There was some discussion about the lack of visibility of the > Xen4CentOS development process. > > The Xen spec files and supporting patches are kept in a git tree. > I've pushed copies of these trees here: > > https://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen > > xen-44 is the branch for Xen 4.4 development, and xen-46 is the branch > for Xen 4.6 development. > > As is normal, these repos do not contain many of the binary tarballs > required to build. The best way to get these is to download a recent > srpm (from http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-xen-46-testing/source/SRPMS/ > -- replacing virt6 with virt7 or 44 with 46 as appropriate). > > The patches to the xen hypervisor are in a rather unusual format: a > git "am". This makes it *much* easier to rebase and manipulate the > queue if you're familiar with git; but it does add a bit to get > familiar with. > > To manipulate the am patchqueue (using 4.4.3 as an example): > > 1. Check out a git repo and make a branch based on the baseline version In case this wasn't clear -- clone a copy of the *upstream Xenproject* repo and do this. So first: $ git clone git://xenbits.xenproject.org/xen.git xen.git $ cd xen.git Then carry on with... > $ git checkout -b centos/pq/4.4.3 RELEASE-4.4.3 &c -George _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
