Re: [PATCH]: Fix sparc64 build...

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Freitag, den 04.12.2009, 13:34 -0800 schrieb David Miller:
> From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:58:25 +0100
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:03:09PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >> 
> >> Thanks, but I don't feel comfortable enough with bzr yet.
> >> 
> >> I had to struggle just to get things checked out, as the bzr
> >> package in Debian stable is too old to use to access to repo.
> >> 
> >> (For the record I disagree with the source control system choosen,
> >>  and the fact that a common current Linux distribution doesn't even
> >>  provide a version of the tool necessary to access the repo really
> >>  convinces me further of that.)
> > 
> > For a Lenny system the following should do the trick:
> > 
> >   echo "deb http://backports.org/debian lenny-backports main" | sudo
> tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
> >   gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 16BA136C
> >   gpg --export -a 16BA136C | sudo apt-key add -
> >   sudo apt-get update
> >   sudo apt-get install -t lenny-backports bzr
> 
> That's not a straightforward and low barrier of entry for new
> developers who want to simply check out the grub code and start
> contributing.  That's my point.
> 
> Do you want lots of people involved, or do you want people to have
> to jump through hoops and go out of their way to get at your tree?
> 
> Heck, for this reason alone, subversion was a better situation.

When squeeze is out we hopefully won't have that problem again that we
have to use newer versions then Debian stable.
I hope that the bzr repository formats are now enough stable for our
use.

> Mercurial, GIT, or pretty any other distributed source control system
> would have worked out of the box with the client versions provided in
> debian stable and other distributions.
> 
> So, I still believe BZR was a bad choice of a source control system.
> 
> And how many times have you guys wrecked your repository already?
> :-)

IIRC 3 times, but 2 times was because of the broken bzr-svn used to sync
regulary SVN to Bazaar trunk.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer