From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] If we find a Linux repository in $(LINUX_SRC_PATH) then symlink it Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:44:14 -0600 Message-ID: <1180993454.6221.200.camel@bling> References: <200706041442.l54EgKQp007662@latara.uk.xensource.com> <1180982974.6221.151.camel@bling> <1180993053.5416.6.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1180993053.5416.6.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Campbell Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:37 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:49 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:42 +0100, Xen staging patchbot-unstable wrote: > > > # HG changeset patch > > > # User Ian Campbell > > > # Date 1180968092 -3600 > > > # Node ID c09dbe98e4d61d29138e8a2918d9ee8a85e1d6cf > > > # Parent 5710c94e65394daadafd7a6780450e01a26bf32d > > > If we find a Linux repository in $(LINUX_SRC_PATH) then symlink it > > > instead of cloning it. This enables developers to keep a linux tree > > > separate to their xen repository and to make changes there which are > > > picked up by the Xen build. > > > > I don't like this at all, especially without an environment variable > > I can use to disable it. My standard mode of operation is to have a > > directory with repos that exactly mirror upstream. To work on code or > > apply patches, I clone those and work from there. I don't want the > > default to be symlink'ing to my 'pristine' upstream repo copies. > > Thanks, > > export LINUX_SRC_PATH='' should do what you need, no? Nope, that still gives me a symlink'd linux-2.6.18-xen.hg repo. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.