[Fedora-xen] xen-unstable => 3.2, binary packages

[John Summerfield]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> We hope to be releasing upstream Xen 3.2 soon.  As you'll know, we've
> been in the habit of producing binary packages for our releases,
> including for Fedora.
> 
> It seemed to me that the best approach would be, where possible, to
> use a distro's own packaging setup.  That would be more likely to
> generate packages which integrate well with the distro and behave more
> like the distro's own Xen packaging arrangements.
> 
> I haven't looked at the FC6 srpm in detail yet but what would you
> think about it if we were to generate our 3.2 binary rpms based on
> that ?

I wouldn't be impressed:-)

I believe FC6 has just been terminated (support for Fedora ends soon 
after the second successor).

Is basing on Fedora 8 a problem? It's got about a year of life left in it.

Note to Ian
I assume that since you seem to have set reply to your own address that 
you want off-list replies. You cannot reply direct to me however.

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John

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