Ian Jackson wrote:
Daniel Veillard writes ("Re: xen-unstable => 3.2, binary packages"):
'Fedora Core' was renamed 'Fedora' between version 6 and 7, you
will find the latests under the 'releases' subdir:
Ahh! Thanks.
My own opinion about this is that since xen is packaged as part of
Fedora, rebuilding a package on your side might be more of a problem
than a solution (I mean for official release rather than for testing)
since it's best to keep a coherency. If you have some problems with
the packages as done in Fedora, it's better to get the issues (assuming
any) solved, rather than putting a parallel set of packages, in the end
avoiding users confusions helps everybody in my opinion.
Right, I can absolutely see where you're coming from and obviously I
would prefer to let Fedora developers do the work too :-).
The question is what users might be expected to do between the release
of Xen 3.2 and the time that Fedora releases its Xen 3.2 packages.
For most users of Xen it's a pretty critical and important package and
some kind of backport of Xen 3.2 onto their running system is likely
to be valuable to many. Xen users may often want to choose explicitly
to upgrade their Xen version.
I don't know what Fedora's policy is about including new upstream
versions in updates, but I would think that most sensible policies
would generally frown on pushing a new hypervisor into an
already-released distribution.
I'm not an official part of the fedora project. I suggest you get the
latest from rawhide and work from that.
Contact one or more of the most recent people mentioned in the changelog
and offer to contribute the results, and by the way, can this go into
Fedora 7 & 8 too?
Rawhide is the bleeding edge of Fedora. people there expect to get cut:-)
I wouldn't regard fedora as a stable distribution; if stability is
important, CentOS is the place to go for cheapskates like me. Fedora
regularly gets new kernels and other new stuff, I don't see why xen
should be excluded.
Best all round though if it can be built to cohabit with earlier xen, so
people can have both at once, maybe (given its nature) choosing which at
boot time. That though will depend in part on related packages.
This user would quite like the latest in F8, but I'm not sure I want to
run rawhide.
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John
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