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 software). We

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 developers

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 if the

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: enomalism, dtc-xen

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

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: 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 they doing

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 Xen on

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