[xen-tools] Re: [PATCH] ubuntu hooks update

[Steve Kemp]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:18:36AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:

> Let's get something straight first; I tested on Dapper. Currently you have
> dapper.d symlinked to ubuntu.d; I assume you will split those dirs up when
> Edgy (the next Ubuntu release) comes out?

  I figured that Dapper and Edgy would be mostly the same so I would
 just add a new symlink to the same location to be honest.

  IIRC I've already done that in CVS.

> Basically I was assuming that any change I made that works on Dapper is fine,
> because xen-tools doesn't support any other Ubuntu release right now. Not
> much point in supporting older releases, and for newer ones I assumed we
> could split the config because there will no doubt be some changes.

  Right.

> So; that being said; removing 10-disable-tls for Dapper makes sense because
> the /lib/tls directory is simply not there by default. I'm a little confused
> as to whether the glibc6 that ships with Dapper is actually xen-friendly (or
> *exactly* what that constitutes, even; I only found some reference to being
> compiled with the -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs CFLAG) or not. But in any case,
> /lib/tls simply does not exist.

  In that case I'll remove it.

> Well, here I have the same kind of problem; at this point we only have what
> debootstrap created. And because debootstrap is automatic, it can not prompt
> for a locale, so it just assumes the default (apparently). Except, there's a
> bug in the sense that it does not generate the default locale (which seems to
> be en_US.UTF-8). Even if you use a Greek locale, having the default locale
> installed will not hurt - and it will still prevent all those ugly warnings
> the first time you boot the domU, before you have installed your Greek locale.

  OK.  I'll add that then.

> >   OK .. Will remove that if you can confirm that nobody using Ubuntu
> >  will have a static /dev.
> 
> That's not really the question though is it; the question is more like 'what
> is debootstrap's default', or in other words what do you end up with the
> first time you boot after running xen-create-image. No?

  Agreed.  Yes.

> I think I'd prefer to say 'this is ok for Dapper's defaults'. And let's see
> when Edgy comes out, and split the config then. And, let's ignore older
> Ubuntu versions. Wht do you think about that?

  I will apply these changes to ubuntu.d, which is used by Dapper.  It
 will also be used by Edgy until or unless somebody complains in which
 case the choice becomes making the scripts conditional or splitting out
 a new directory.

Steve
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