On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:22:15AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > I'm a bit torn between asking here and asking on the Fedora test list. > > I'd like to use the latest xen (that's what I'm testing), but I don't want to > upgrade to the entire development tree. By latest Xen do you mean '3.2.0' ? After discussions with upstream Xen developers we decide that Fedora will only ever support the version of Xen that ships at the same time as that Fedora release. eg F8 supports 3.1.x, and F9 support 3.2.x. Meanwhile upstream Xen will provide backports of new Xen releases for people who wish to try on existing Fedora. eg Xen provides a 3.2.0 RPM for Fedora 8 which you can get from xen.org. We co-operated to ensure the RPMs follow the same style so it ought to be reasonably painless. WRT to rawhide, I'd strongly recommend against upgrading to that any time soon. Its just going to be too unstable to usefully run Xen until we get the new kernel sorted. The existing kernel-xen in rawhide is known to be broken wrt to even basic things like X and the 'ip' command. > I tried this, and was astonished at the number of packages to upgrade! > [root@potoroo ~]# yum install --disablerepo=* --enable=development kernel-xen > kernel-xen-2.6-doc xen xen-hypervisor xen-libs xenwatch | wc -l > Error: Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia3 >= 3.5.8 is needed by package > kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree > 845 > [root@potoroo ~]# > > Those 845 lines represent upgrading pretty much all of KDE and all of Gnome. Hmm, the 'xen' RPM still has a dep on 'python-virtinst' which still has a dep on 'virt-viewer' which uses GNOME. At very least we need to break the dep between xen and python-virtinst - its a historical thing to assist in upgrades from the FC5 days when 'virt-install' was part of the 'xen' RPM itself. Since FC5 and FC6 are long dead we can kill the dep. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
