[xen-tools] Re: xen-tools error checking, reloaded

[Steve Kemp]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:48:56PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:

> I write this not into the debian bts because I am playing around with
> xen-tools on fedora, so it's trictly not a Debian Bug.

  Noted, thanks.

> Doesn't exactly look like an error. But then, I can't start the vm,
> and see in the logs that I forgot to install the perl template
> modules.

  Text::Template.

> This is already much better than previous versions, the error can be
> found easily in the log file, and there's no half-finished lvm volume
> with no matching config file as some versions before - very cool.

  :)

> Still, to be more user friendly, users should not have to wait until
> the end (debootstrap, some minutes, more when no local mirror is
> available, e.g. because one makes his first tests of xen-tools on
> fedora), then see something which is not directly an error message,

  Agreed.

  I've updated the code in CVS to abort if the module isn't available
 when the xen-create-image script is started.   The error can be
 ignored if --force is specified, although to be honest I can't think
 of a situation where that would be useful.

  Context diff available here:

    http://www.cvsrepository.org/cgi-bin/trac/xen-tools/chngview?cn=724

Steve
-- 
http://www.steve.org.uk/