Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 04:25:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Bastian Blank wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> What is "numerous software" and what are they doing with this internal >>> und unstable interfaces? >> Namely: enoma

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 04:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> In both cases, the goal is to avoid forking yet another process, by >> calling "xm list", "xm stop" or "xm start" for example, by simply >> including some python code and calling the main. > > FWIW I'd be surprised

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 04:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > In both cases, the goal is to avoid forking yet another process, by > calling "xm list", "xm stop" or "xm start" for example, by simply > including some python code and calling the main. FWIW I'd be surprised if the upstream Xen develo

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 04:25:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > What is "numerous software" and what are they doing with this internal > > und unstable interfaces? > Namely: enomalism, dtc-xen (our softwa

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Related to the above also: I even asked the Xen team the request to add >> the following 2 symlinks, that would have solve many issues in numerous >> software: > > What is "numerous software" and what are the

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Related to the above also: I even asked the Xen team the request to add > the following 2 symlinks, that would have solve many issues in numerous > software: What is "numerous software" and what are they doing with this internal und

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:49:39PM -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Is there actually a use case for installing multiple versions of Xen on > the same system? Yes, its the same then with the Linux kernel or every ordinary library: ABI stability, aka interopatibility of the components. Redhat and Su

Bug#536174: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Furthermore, users who read the upstream Xen documentation (#508139), as > well as programs that try to use the Xen binaries (#481105) or libraries > (#507186), get thrown off by the alternate layout. > > Is there actually a use case for installing multiple versions of Xe

Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-16 Thread Anders Kaseorg
The Debian Xen packaging has been carrying a long pile of invasive patches to use this modified filesystem layout for quite some time now. I assume the goal is to make it possible to install multiple versions of Xen at the same time. But that doesn’t seem to have been successful in practice (

Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

2009-07-07 Thread Csillag Kristof
Package: xen-utils-3.4 Version: 3.4.0-1 Severity: important pygrub uses the fsimage library to read contents of the filesystems to boot. This package install the plugins for different filesystems at /usr/lib/xen-3.4/lib/fs/, but searches for them under /usr//usr/lib/fs. (The debian patch tools-l