Bug#410039: No /usr/lib/xen folder so it's confusing other packages

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The problem is that multiple xen versions (3.0-unstable, 3.0.3, 3.0.4)
> can be installed and they are incompatible with each other. If each
> one contained /usr/lib/python/xen then the packages would have to
> conflict.

I understood that, for sure!

> What you need is a common package that contains wrapper scripts in
> /usr/lib/python/xen that will pick the right
> /usr/lib/xen-VERSION/lib/python subdir applicable to the running xen
> version.
> 
> Maybe xen-utils-common is what you should be using?

Maybe a script run at startup could check for the xen version that is
running and make the appropriate symlink? Sure that could be in a
xen-common package, for example... Is that what xen-utils-common does?

Thomas



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