Re: is 4.18 recommended now, vs 4.15?

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

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 08:17:41AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I sort of have an end-of-year tradition of updating the HOWTO.   I just
> did a little, in particular catching up to the versions of Xen in pkgsrc.
> 
>   https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/
> 
> 
> We now have 4.15 and 4.18.  4.15 is already feature-eol and will be
> security-eol in April.
> 
> So:
> 
>   If someone is installing Xen tomorrow, should they install 4.15 or
>   4.18?  This is really "does 4.18 have any problems that 4.15 doesn't?"
>   as obviously newer is better all things being equal, in terms of
>   avoiding a need to update.
> 
>   If the answer is 4.18, is the advice to use 4.18 valid on NetBSD 8 and
>   9?  On 10?  Only on current?

I tested 4.18 on -HEAD only at this time. I expect it to build and run on
netbsd-10; for -9 it may be more problematic and even worse for -8.

> 
>   Has anyone run anita with 4.18?

Not yet. All my servers are running 4.15 at this time; I'm waiting for 4.18
to be in a pkgsrc stable release first.

> 
>   Is anyone testing xen on NetBSD 8?  If not, the HOWTO probably should
>   get a caution.

I had to make room for NetBSD 10 on my test box so I don't have a working -8
environnement any more

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