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

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:
> 
>> 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
> 
> /usr is (potentially) read-only. You can only write there during
> install time which is not enough. You would have to put a static link
> to /var/lib/xen and then have a dynamic link there or something.
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin

Then what's the solution???

Thomas