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

[Chris Lalancette]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange writes ("Re: [Fedora-xen] xen-unstable => 3.2, binary packages"):
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:02:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> I don't know what Fedora's policy is about including new upstream
>>> versions in updates, but I would think that most sensible policies
>>> would generally frown on pushing a new hypervisor into an
>>> already-released distribution.
>> Since the userspace and hypervisor have a pretty tight ABI requirement we
>> cannot do major Xen upgrades during the life of any single Fedora release.
> 
> I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion but I'm not sure
> this reasoning makes sense.  Certainly there's an ABI compatibility
> requirement but all that means is that you would want to upgrade both
> the hypervisor and the dom0 toolstack together.

In theory, yes.  However, the problem ends up being that we can't force people
to reboot to the new kernel, so what happens in practice is that people update
their kernel + userspace API, don't reboot, and then wonder why things don't
work anymore.

Chris Lalancette