[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
[Expired for xe-guest-utilities (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: xe-guest-utilities (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
On 26 February 2018 at 13:48, Stefan Bader wrote: > @Dimitri, I think I was mislead by the mention of XenServer and the > similar version number but I think I remember now that those guest > utilities were just a bunch of script which wrote info about the guest > into xenstore which the host then can read from for > management/informational purposes. XenServer made use of that but > otherwise I guess the two things are independent. Yeap. Note the shell scripts, are now a golang static binary, which runs as a daemon, and mostly sleeps. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
@Dimitri, I think I was mislead by the mention of XenServer and the similar version number but I think I remember now that those guest utilities were just a bunch of script which wrote info about the guest into xenstore which the host then can read from for management/informational purposes. XenServer made use of that but otherwise I guess the two things are independent. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
On 23 February 2018 at 14:25, Stefan Bader wrote: > Might be just another candidate for deletion. Looking now I can no > longer find that package in Debian. And I am pretty sure the guest- > utilities were once pushed by Citrix via Debian. Then they (Citrix) > stopped or very poorly maintained it. Now openxenserver as well as xe- > guest-utilities can no longer be see in Debian. And it looks like > openxenmanager also got removed. > False. This is not a candidate for deletion. Ubuntu has packaged the most recent fork/rewrite of xe-guest-utilities which we support and ship to clouds that use Xen virtualisation, of which there are 2 commercial offerings. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
On 24 February 2018 at 16:15, Glyn M Burton <1750...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Hello Christian, > > May I first apologise if this was not the appropriate place to post. I > was coming from an Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu package point of view. > > Indeed it is confusing that a package advertising v7.4 is actually an > older v6.6 release. The bug, therefore, is surely the fact the apt- > system perceived the in-built v7.0 virtual drivers (from XenServer's own > virtual .ISO, much like how VMware does it) as being out of date and > elected to install v7.4. The logic in that is sound. However, it > ultimately installed v6.6 which is the issue. > I do not believe it is an older v6.6 release at all. I do believe it is the v7.4 release, which maintains backwards compatibility as far back as v6.6. Alternatively, could you point me to v7.4 source code of the guest utils that you were expecting to find, to compare the actual code, like for like? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Hello Christian, May I first apologise if this was not the appropriate place to post. I was coming from an Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu package point of view. Indeed it is confusing that a package advertising v7.4 is actually an older v6.6 release. The bug, therefore, is surely the fact the apt- system perceived the in-built v7.0 virtual drivers (from XenServer's own virtual .ISO, much like how VMware does it) as being out of date and elected to install v7.4. The logic in that is sound. However, it ultimately installed v6.6 which is the issue. I cannot comment on Stefan's thoughts as I am not a Debian guy. With VirtualBox drivers being included as standard now and VMware's available for installation, would it be unfair to remove Xen's package? As ever, I revert to your more experienced judgement on the matter. Best regards, Modiford. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Might be just another candidate for deletion. Looking now I can no longer find that package in Debian. And I am pretty sure the guest- utilities were once pushed by Citrix via Debian. Then they (Citrix) stopped or very poorly maintained it. Now openxenserver as well as xe- guest-utilities can no longer be see in Debian. And it looks like openxenmanager also got removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
xe-guest-utilities (7.4.0-0ubuntu1) artful Is available since 1 xe-guest-utilities (7.4.0-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium 2 3 * New upstream release: 4 - adds mac address reporting 5 - adds disk drive reporting 6 * Use actual upstream source code from github, and watch file 7 * Drop all patches, custom get-orig source, README.source, and useless 8 manpages 9 * Set Vcs-Git location 10 * Use absolute imports to support building with gccgo. 11 12 -- Dimitri John Ledkov Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:58:24 +0100 This would actually match the time this was uploaded https://github.com/xenserver/xe-guest-utilities/releases/tag/v7.4.0 Which is of Apr 26, 2017 Be careful that this 7.4 is NOT the version of the xen server or anything like it. It is the version of these xe-guest-utils. Further if you check the Makefile content of the 7.4 release it has in the Makefile: 1 PRODUCT_MAJOR_VERSION=6 2 PRODUCT_MINOR_VERSION=6 3 PRODUCT_MICRO_VERSION=80 Not sure what this is about, but if it is an issue it is for https://github.com/xenserver/xe-guest-utilities/issues IMHO. To me it is unclear if this is an issue at all. It is confusing - I agree - but it is just as the upstream projects version themselve. SO I'll mark the bug incomplete until we find in a discussion if/where the actual bug is. Subscribing smb (for xen) and xnox (for doing the last upload) in case they might want to add something. ** Changed in: xen (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Package changed: xen (Ubuntu) => xe-guest-utilities (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => xen (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: xen (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
According to the World of Google: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22apport-collect%22+headless This has been an issue since 2010 and as best I can tell, still remains unfixed. Would be pleased to stand corrected on this matter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1750366] Re: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Apologies for asking. Your Kernel Bot has just requested I use 'apport- collect'. Obliging, I did this and it suggests a browser session will open for confirmation. However, this is a headless Ubuntu Server installation. Is there a way around this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750366 Title: Strange versioning in 18.04 Bionic Beaver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1750366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
