Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-03-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, While we are talking about Xen development in Debian, I would be interested in help getting kernel-package optionally create Xen images. I had gotten stuff working back when Xen was a separate arch, but now that it is a subarch, having people who build and test Xen images would

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-03-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, While we are talking about Xen development in Debian, I would be interested in help getting kernel-package optionally create Xen images. I had gotten stuff working back when Xen was a separate arch, but now that it is a subarch, having people who build and test Xen images would

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-03-01 Thread maximilian attems
[ trimmed cc from debian-devel ] hello jeremy, On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: I take issue with this because we [the xen team] have never excluded anyone and have tried to get all those people interested in solid Debian packages of xen to come forth and help. I spent a

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. The

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Guido Trotter wrote: Absolutely true! The current xen team is fully agrees on this position! Guido xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Julien Danjou
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. I hear that the kernel team don't want to maintain userspace tools. the debian kernel team has always been

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Guido Trotter wrote: Absolutely true! The current xen team is fully agrees on this position! xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. Then why don't you just join and commit your fixes before anybody tried to release it? I can. Bastian --

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:02:34PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. Then why don't you just join and commit your

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Trotter
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:17:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, I can. :) Guido, be warned that Bastian often communicates with a few monosylabes and SVN commits :) This doesn't make working with him too problematic usually though :) We've been a bit more chatty, for now, but I

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Trotter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:29:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, I guess that if people are able to find a kernel source tree outside of debian, they are perfectly capable of downloading and applying a patch too. Just include an URL to wherever such a patch is in the README.Debian of the

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: snipp as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. But it doesn't make sense to release them both as

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I take issue with this because we [the xen team] have never excluded anyone and have tried to get all those people interested in solid Debian packages of xen to come forth and help. I spent a good amount of time before actually forming the Alioth project attempting to get in touch with

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:51:16AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for dom0 only ?). No. The kernel team will maintain xen

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:39:13AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi, FWIW, the policy on kernel patches for sarge was that if it didn't apply to the kernel sources we shipped, it didn't need to be included as a package in

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-27 Thread Guido Trotter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, The kernel patches for XEN should be maintained inside the kernel team and in linux-2.6, they are free to join the kernel team to handle this, but it is unacceptable to have some kind of external patch to the kernel floating

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
Bastian Blank wrote: Hi! The debian kernel team will maintain xen images with the linux-2.6 source. I currently prepare both xen 3.0 and unstable packages, which can be hopefully uploaded today. Maintainer will be the kernel team, as there are heavy dependencies between xen and the kernel.

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Julien Danjou
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:37:56PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: This is insufficient. Either maintain both 3.0 and unstable or none. In the meantime, the kernel team will maintain both. As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for dom0 only ?). We just have to duplicate

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: Hi, As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for dom0 only ?). Actually I think he meant the hypervisors too... Anyway I also think that if the kernel team is going to maintain the kernel images there

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for dom0 only ?). No. The kernel team will maintain xen (in variants 3.0 and unstable). Bastian -- Vulcans worship peace above all. -- McCoy,

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Julien Danjou
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:05:33PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: No. The kernel team will maintain xen (in variants 3.0 and unstable). Okay, I misunderstood. You will maintain userland tools too ? Is you work is already finished and available somewhere ? Right, I am juste a little disapointed. :)

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Friday, 24 February 2006 16:56, Guido Trotter wrote: So... what do you think we can do now? Can we join our efforts on xen or you strongly think it should be left to the kernel team, and we should just close the alioth project? Well, if the kernel team answers left to the kernel team and you

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:20:17PM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote: Hi, Well, if the kernel team answers left to the kernel team and you close the alioth project, I guess you can always move into the kernel team ;) Yes, we could, of course... But on the other hand I believe that the xen

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Friday, 24 February 2006 17:34, Guido Trotter wrote: Yes, we could, of course... But on the other hand I believe that the xen hypervisor and userspace tools are actually different from the linux kernel (as they support multiple kernels and operating systems), even though the linux kernel

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for dom0 only ?). No. The kernel team will maintain xen (in variants 3.0 and unstable). Bastian, as far as I know, you

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:41:53PM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote: Hi, I agree. I just would like to ask that, please, don't disband just because of disagreement with the kernel team, but try to cooperate anyway. I don't think we want to! And I hope there is no disagreement (we still don't

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:35PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On the other hand Xen is not the kernel, so isn't it better if there is a team for it, even if strongly connected with the kernel one? It is a sort of kernel. And no, I don't think it

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: I won't reject the help of volunteers but I strongly think that the kernel team needs to have its hands on them. How many members of the kernel team are planning to do active work on Xen, kernel and userspace? Greetings Marc --

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi, It is a sort of kernel. Yeah, it's a sort of kernel, but it's not the linux kernel... And it seems the kernel team is about the linux kernel, not just any kernel, isn't it? Just to say, how connected xen to linux is: For

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:04:03 +0100 Guido Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I think xen would be better served having its own committed team, repository, etc, is that it would be easier for anyone interested in xen to follow just mailing lists dedicated to it and its repository

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:32:10PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: It is a sort of kernel. Yeah, it's a sort of kernel, but it's not the linux kernel... And it seems the kernel team is about the linux kernel, not just any kernel,

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: The debian kernel team will maintain xen images with the linux-2.6 source. I currently prepare both xen 3.0 and unstable packages, which can be hopefully uploaded today. Maintainer will be the kernel team, as there are heavy

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:34:44PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi, Yeah, it's a sort of kernel, but it's not the linux kernel... And it seems the kernel team is about the linux kernel, not just any kernel, isn't it? The dom0 kernel is a Linux kernel built for the Xen hypervisor

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Guido Trotter
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi, FWIW, the policy on kernel patches for sarge was that if it didn't apply to the kernel sources we shipped, it didn't need to be included as a package in stable. We're obviously not shipping a 2.6.12 kernel for etch, so I