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From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building of XEN from source on a
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:39:05 -0400
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On 10/14/13 11:52, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Don Slutz writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow building of XEN from source on a system without internet access."):
>> On 10/04/13 09:24, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ...
>>>> -XEN_EXTFILES_URL=http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles
>>>> +XEN_EXTFILES_URL ?= http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles
>>> Given the change here and further down - what is it that doesn't
>>> work when you run "make XEN_EXTFILES_URL=..."? I understand
>>> that you may want to pass these settings through the environment,
>>> but if the command line approach works the patch title is wrong.
>> Yes, these are passed via the environment.  Will fix the patch title.
> Right, thanks.
>
> FAOD I approve of this kind of change, but did you know that you can
> put settings like this in .config in the root of the Xen tree ?
I did.  So how about a title of "Allow building of XEN from source on a 
system without internet access by specifying external stuff in .config"?
    -Don Slutz
> Ian.