[Fedora-xen] Preview Xen 3.2 rc* packages

[Ian Jackson]

I've merged the patches and so on from xen-3.1.0-13.fc8.src.rpm with a
recent xen-unstable tip (16635:9d447ba0c99a).  With a bit of work I
have managed to get a set of packages which appear to be able to work
at least in my simple `does this work at all' test.

I'm mentioning it here so that you can have a look at what I've done
and comment on it.  We'll probably be making official upstream rpms
for Fedora 8.  Please send me feedback either here on-list or
privately.

Most of the patches from -13.fc8 have been incorporated upstream so I
just deleted them from my srpm.  A couple of these patches I've
included I have also submitted upstream and they'll be in
xen-unstable.hg soon if they're not already.

There were two patches that looked like they would be useful upstream:
 xen-qemu-bootmenu.patch 
 pygrub-manykernels.patch
but I wasn't able to find clear attribution for the source of this
code.  Xen upstream operates a `Signed-off-by' protocol to ensure that
we don't get bitten by copyright problems.  Where should I look to try
to find the authors/contributors to check on the copyright status ?

In my package I have included the hypervisor in the xen-*.rpm rather
than making a kernel package too.  This is more in line with practice
upstream.  The new hypervisor seems to work for me with the
2.6.21-2952.fc8xen kernel.

I have not included xen-net-bridge.patch which seemed quite a
surprising set of changes to me.

I was rather puzzled by the part of xen-initscript.patch which removes
most of xend's startup code.  I agree that xend's arrangements are not
entirely ideal but is there really much to be gained by making that
changes, which obviously makes the patchset much more fragile ?

You can find the actual files here:
 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/xen-3.2rc-fedora8/

THESE PACKAGES SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR PRODUCTION - they're previews,
and Xen 3.2 is still unreleased and in need of more testing.

Please check the SHA256's before installing them:
 1209de4470cf505113e684fe8f1f5c13faad40ad8eb4c456e8741eddbe5b6254  xen-3.1.9-0.fc8.i386.rpm
 18ad4f2b35c6918ab3070e43d238487f6cbaf10a682cfc90b1d11c4640957395  xen-3.1.9-0.fc8.src.rpm
 428da514ccf9064244017a5068c399ec0e7c5816c2d2f4ded17e9af031d50759  xen-debuginfo-3.1.9-0.fc8.i386.rpm
 98305f6fc7de7c965b7cb0426a0bed4cb977394a8fce1cedf6fb35d6780df0c5  xen-devel-3.1.9-0.fc8.i386.rpm
 f45e0ed7ff40bf7ef4e8cd236f639060caba27d3573003745bfa37f3ae0f4943  xen-libs-3.1.9-0.fc8.i386.rpm

Regards,
Ian.