[Fedora-xen] Problem building xen-3.2 on f8

[John Summerfield]

Dustin Henning wrote:
> John,
> 	Are you trying to rebuild an F9 rpm as Dan suggests, or are you
> trying to build directly from the source tarball from xen.org?  I didn't
> think much of anything would build with the standard rpm configuration for
> Fedora (though I haven't run F8), so my first thought would be that you need
> to install some other rpms, but I can't really suggest which ones, if any of
> those required files don't exist on your system, you may be able to find out
> what needs installed to obtain them from a site like rpmfind.net.  If all of
> those files do exist, then I can't really tell you what those errors mean,
> but assuming you let the group know that you are trying to build from the
> xen.org source, then maybe someone else can help.  On the other hand, it may
> be that a difference in python versions available from F8 to F9 could still
> make a difference leaving you to wit for xen.org rpms for F8 or build a
> newer version of python manually as well.  Good luck with whatever you're
> trying,

I haven't seen Dan's reply yet, and might not if he's replied off-list.

I am trying to build the f9 rpm, the problem is the rpm's trying to 
package files that don't get created (and I can't see any way they could 
get created).


> 	Dustin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Daniel P. Berrange
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 08:59
> To: John Summerfield
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Problem building xen-3.2 on f8
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:53:30PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> I'm building for AMD-64/EMT64. The build terminates this:
>> Requires: libflask.so.1.0()(64bit) libfsimage.so.1.0()(64bit) 
>> libxenctrl.so.3.2()(64bit) libxenguest.so.3.2()(64bit)
> libxenstore.so.3.0()	
>> (64bit)
>> Checking for unpackaged 
>> file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/xen-3.2.0-2.fc8-root
> 
> The way python is handled in F9 change slightly, so F9 RPMs will not
> rebuild for F8 without modifications. We don't intend to support 3.20
> on Fedora 8 - we're stickin with 3.1.x bug fix tree. Upstream Xen will
> however provide 3.2.0 RPMs for Fedora 8  for those who wish to try it
> out ahead of official Fedora 9 release
> 
> http://xen.org/download/dl_32rhel8.html

The packages there are unsuitable, I'm 64-bit. I'm continuing the search.



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