Re: drop xen4.8 ?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

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

> So, new proposal:
> I will remove Xen 4.5, 4.6 and 4.8 after the freeze, unless someone
> objects.

I put a 'no security update' note in 4.[568]'s DESCR.

Sounds ok, assuming the theory "4.11 works everywhere that anyone can
run xen from pkgsrc on a platform supported by pkgsrc, including
netbsd-7" holds up to scrutiny from the list :-)

> 4.2 is the last one with the python-based tools.
> The newer tools have a different behavior (xl create forks one instance
> per device create/remove, and runs them in parallel). It took some time
> to handle it right on our side, and I don't know if everyone have migrated
> yet (it can be tricky with custom scripts to handle virtual devices).
>
> If nobody uses it any more I'm fine with dropping it too.

I put a note in DESCR of xenkernel42 about that.

(I used to look after a number of xen systems, but no longer do that,
and while I have intended to set up a semi-old box with xen to function
as a pkgsrc build farm, I haven't yet, so I'm an odd mix of concerned
and out of touch this minute.)


So: Is anyone running other than 4.11?  Why?