[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/4] xenserver: Don't require /etc/xensource-inventory at install.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Feb 11 19:26:44 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:55:21AM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> From: Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com>
> 
> There are two mechanisms of installing a supplemental pack ??? one is
> after installation (using the xe-install-supplemental-pack command) and
> one is during installation by either creating a new install ISO with the
> supplemental pack bundled or creating an HTTP directory which serves the
> install files and the new supplemental pack contents.
> 
> The RPM should support both methods, but currently only works if the
> supplemental pack is installed post-installation.  The failure is caused
> by /etc/xensource-inventory not existing during the installation; this
> is created at the end of the installation, and therefore is not present
> when the RPM is installed.  This cannot be used to determine the version
> of the XenServer installation.
> 
> With this commit, /etc/xensource-inventory is not checked on
> installation of XenServer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com>

I don't think that we ever need to source /etc/xensource-inventory
anymore, but the rest of this makes sense to me.

Thanks,

Ben.




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