On 01/21/2016 04:32 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
I'm a developer, not a server admin, so I can't gauge how important this issue is. Before making such a change, I'd like to hear opinions from other people in the community about how important (or not) it is to avoid breaking xm, given the ample warning (>1 year) users have had.
On the other hand, explicitly moving to a "xen${VER}" (both for C6 and C7) would make it simpler for people to step up and maintain older versions in parallel if anybody wanted to do so.
My inclination is towards a naming scheme like xen46, xen48, etc + a meta package that always depends on the latest. It should be more obvious when there's a major upgrade, and those who can't afford a major upgrade can uninstall the meta package.
For the record, we have no particular desire for xen 4.4 but haven't done enough testing to say xen 4.6 is good yet.