[xen-tools-dev] Xen-Tools Fixes & Gentoo

[Dmitry Nedospasov]

Hi Reto,

On 7/5/10 2:49 AM, Reto Gantenbein wrote:
> I'm not really sure what's the default approach to hand-in patches since
> I'm not yet very familiar with git. So I would like to just start with
> two small patches that are attached to this mail. 

If you are just getting started with git, feel free to PM me and I can
send you some links that i think are good for starters.

We use git for the simplicity with which you can send in patches, and
the simplicity with which we can then test them. Take a look a
git-send-email [1].

Alternatively, if you feel like you want to commit quite a few patches,
and you feel hampered by sending them to us every time, you could open
up a gitorious account. This would allow you to create your own branch,
and then use the web interface to alert us, that you want to merge with
upstream.

This is also a great option, though its not very cli-oriented ;) You can
take a look at Nathan's branch, he's doing just this to continue
xen-tools/rinse development. [2]

> The first patch is xen-create-image_typos.patch is fixing various typos
> in the source code. I saw that there already have been a lot fixes since
> the 4.1 release, nevertheless some got missed.

Applied :) [3]

Though i like the one line break (which i left) so that the line length
stays under 80 chars.

> The second patch is xen-create-image_fix-version.patch. This patch fixes
> the output of 'xen-create-image --version'. It wrongly tries to printout
> some guest host information per default.

I didn't quite understand in which case this happens. Could you give me
some example input? You are running the upstream, correct? I'm just
pretty sure I fixed this.

> On the mailing list archive I saw that you are unsure about the Gentoo
> support of xen-tools. I'm a Gentoo user and very familiar with Gentoo
> and the xen-tools, so I will have a look at it in the coming days.

That's great! We really appreciate it. I was going to do CentOS support,
but lack of time, and the fact CentOS dropped Xen support (or will)
means that it might not be worth my time, though i still want domU
support :)

If you want to work on either host or guest support for gentoo, we will
welcome it!

> Kind regards,

All the best,

D.

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
[2] http://gitorious.org/~nats/xen-tools/nats-xen-tools
[3]
http://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools/commit/be205d307ea99e9e2f1f15cf318fbb528105b8e0

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