[meta-virtualization] [RFC] xen: Break volatiles out into separate package.

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Chris Patterson <cjp256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks good to me.
>

So to confirm for everyone, no objections if this merges as-is ?

Bruce

>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us> wrote:
>> > The Xen scripts for handling block and vif udev events depend on
>> > directories created by the Xen volatile directories. In a situation
>> > where the 'base' Xen package isn't installed (NDVM etc) these
>> > scripts fail silently. The most simple approach I could come up
>> > with is just breaking the Xen volatiles config out into it's own
>> > package and setting up the logical dependencies.
>> >
>> > Creating a new package for just a single file seems like overkill
>> > to me but it's the most straightforward thing I could come up with.
>>
>> This seems reasonable to me, there are plenty of other one file package
>> examples (in particular since the update-rc.d only works for one
>> initscript
>> per package), so that isn't all that out of the ordinary.
>>
>> So to my eye, this looks ok.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Philip
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us>
>> > ---
>> >  recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc |    8 +++++++-
>> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc b/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
>> > index 9d43814..e31e996 100644
>> > --- a/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
>> > +++ b/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
>> > @@ -53,12 +53,14 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-base = "\
>> >  RDEPENDS_${PN}-scripts-block = "\
>> >      ${PN}-scripts-common \
>> >      ${PN}-udev \
>> > +    ${PN}-volatiles \
>> >      "
>> >
>> >  RDEPENDS_${PN}-scripts-network = "\
>> >      bridge-utils \
>> >      ${PN}-scripts-common \
>> >      ${PN}-udev \
>> > +    ${PN}-volatiles \
>> >      "
>> >
>> >  PACKAGES = "\
>> > @@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ PACKAGES = "\
>> >      ${PN}-scripts-network \
>> >      ${PN}-staticdev \
>> >      ${PN}-udev \
>> > +    ${PN}-volatiles \
>> >      ${PN}-xcutils \
>> >      ${PN}-xencommons \
>> >      ${PN}-xend \
>> > @@ -210,7 +213,6 @@ FILES_${PN}-hypervisor = "\
>> >      "
>> >
>> >  FILES_${PN}-base = "\
>> > -    ${sysconfdir}/default/volatiles/99_xen \
>> >      ${sysconfdir}/default/xencommons \
>> >      ${sysconfdir}/default/xendomains \
>> >      ${sysconfdir}/xen/auto \
>> > @@ -425,6 +427,10 @@ FILES_${PN}-udev = "\
>> >      ${sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/xend.rules \
>> >      "
>> >
>> > +FILES_${PN}-volatiles = "\
>> > +    ${sysconfdir}/default/volatiles/99_xen \
>> > +    "
>> > +
>> >  FILES_${PN}-xcutils = "\
>> >      ${libdir}/xen/bin/lsevtchn \
>> >      ${libdir}/xen/bin/readnotes \
>> > --
>> > 1.7.10.4
>> >
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