From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NHDAK-00075A-Mb for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:28 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHDAH-00072o-6E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:25 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHDAC-0006zh-KP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:24 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35192 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NHDAC-0006zR-EW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:20 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:51689) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NHDAC-00078n-1v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:20 -0500 Received: from [85.180.26.144] (e180026144.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.26.144]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MGmEX-1NLHcW4893-00DLx2; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:12:18 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: <20091204.133439.20496286.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4B181E03.4080600@gmail.com> <20091203.130309.159359980.davem@davemloft.net> <20091204205825.GF1528@thorin> <20091204.133439.20496286.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:12:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1260090737.4432.9.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.29.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19qqpXBs0c3NHAj/OKgZOyPiaPO7bfy1us1YZS piNIoWrHJfAAhiutj0wtN4/sIVVS7bVx8yDEooZLLyYrmeXr6l Hd7dV2jF+tM91GVm+R8pg== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix sparc64 build... X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:12:25 -0000 Am Freitag, den 04.12.2009, 13:34 -0800 schrieb David Miller: > From: Robert Millan > 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. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer