On 31/03/15 11:17, George Dunlap wrote: > KB / Jonathan / Others, > > One of our potential GSoC students, Guatam Malu, has proposed trying > to include xapi packages in the "Xen in a Box" project. > > He's gotten packages of xapi building for CentOS 6.6 using XenServer's > buildroot (see below). > > The only potential issue I see is about signing. And the content and the origin of content and the build cycle for the entire content stream. > > As I understand it, xapi requires a newer version of ocaml than is > available in C6. The XenServer buildroot includes (and I think > builds) a newer version of ocaml; but (again I think) xapi is > statically linked, so the new ocaml packages are only required for > build, and not for runtime. At the moment Jonathan is trying to work > with one of the other SIGs to get the necessary ocaml support; it's > not clear when that will happen. > > Until that time, the only way to get xapi packages built in koji by > the Virt SIG would be to also include the newer version of ocaml (and > whatever other dependencies there are), which we'd like to avoid. why ? I thought there was traction around the idea of having a full ocaml stack that represents upstream ocaml. > > So the question is: Do we need to have all the packages on "Xen in a > Box" CD signed with the CentOS SIG key? If so, do we see any > likelihood that this might be possible by July -- either having a > suitable ocaml to build against in koji, or getting the packages built > and signed some other way? given that there are packages for ocaml, if someone was working on this as a primary focus, I dont see why it should be more than a couple of weeks worth of work to get them building. The key part here is going to be knowledge of ocaml itself. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc