Re: pkgsrc freeze for 2016Q4 starting on Dec 19

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 09:24:22AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 16 December 2016 at 08:06, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:08:21AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:31:35PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >> > Can we sit down and start pruning some things then? E.g. we have way too
> >> > many LibreOffice and OpenOffice versions in the tree, I think. Given how
> >> > heavy those packages are, that's a lot of build time.
> >>
> >> Can you please provide a complete list of packages that you want to
> >> prune?
> >>
> >> (The standard answer to this question is always "do it after the
> >> freeze", but the question reliably pops up before it ;) )
> >>  Thomas
> >
> > I'd like to get rid of some of the Xen packages (xen41 and xen45 at last),
> > but after the freeze, with appropriate warning in the 2016Q4 release
> > notes.
> 
> I have an amd/7 box stuck on xen45. I've tried going to xen46 a couple
> of times but none of the guests (they are all ubuntu) will boot, and

I have to admit I've not tested Xen4.6 much myself. It's on my todo list
(along with packaging 4.8).

> I've not had any luck asking on the lists. Is there anywhere more
> general I could ask?

I think there's a xen-users mailing list (maybe xen-users%xen.org@localhost)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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