xen-system-amd64 recompilation from source broken in 16.04

[Éliás Tamás]

HI.

Ok, then the question is as follows:

Is that possible in the near future to see a xen package in ubuntu that
supports STUBDOMAIN HVMs? (in my point of view this is the only secure
way of hosting windows-based guests)

If yes, when?

If no, why?

Thnak you for your patience.

2016-03-23 11:55 keltezéssel, Stefan Bader írta:
> On 23.03.2016 10:51, Éliás Tamás wrote:
>> HI.
>>
>>>> I had to install libsystemd-daemon-dev from an older ubuntu repository,
>>>> which seemes to place the required pkgconfig file for the xen sources
>>>> are looking for. I assume there is a need to merge  the old
>>>> ibsystemd-daemon-dev package with the new libsystemd-dev.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not really as long as the Debian/Ubuntu packaging is not enabling systemd (which
>>> is not yet the case).
>>
>> Then what should be the acceptable solution?
>>
>> Currently the xen sources are not compiling on 16.04 without extra
>> hacks. This is not the case with eg.: debian 8, that works out of the
>> box after the required backages been installed. (yes, 16.04 has newer
>> gnutls and for some reason the systemd packages been merged into one,
>> but this breaks compiling xen sources)
> 
> If fetching the source directly from upstream works in Debian that might be luck
> and may as well change any time. If you look at the Xen package in Debian this
> is not just the upstream source either.
> So either you will have to live with personal hacks or you might use the
> existing distro packaging as a base for merging the new upstream version. Doing
> that would allow to use a PPA for the build. Admittedly that is not a simple
> task as debian packaging is a big area to learn. So personal hacks might be simpler.
> There is just no way that the distro changes its packaging that late in the
> cycle to satisfy compiling from upstream source. Even more so with something
> like systemd which mostly everything depends on.
> 
> -Stefan
>>
>>
> 
> 

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