Re: [Qemu-devel] openbios.git mirror on git.qemu.org

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 09/06/15 11:22, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:55:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 19 May 2015 at 21:47, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 19/05/15 13:55, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 19.05.2015 um 12:42 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>>>>> Ping.  Should we stick with an old mirror of OpenBIOS for QEMU 2.4 or
>>>>> switch to the official upstream repo?
>>>>
>>>> I don't quite understand the question. OpenBIOS is still using SVN
>>>> AFAIK. QEMU is using Git, so I thought we always need a Git mirror for
>>>> submodules? Has the git-svn integration been extended to svn submodules
>>>> and which versions of git support that?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why submodules make anything different
>>
>> They mean we can't literally just point our submodule at upstream,
>> because upstream isn't a git repo and submodules must point
>> at git repos. (However I think we generally prefer to point at
>> a git.qemu.org mirror of upstream's repo anyway.)
>>
>>> , but for an SVN
>>> repository I can't see why the nightly cron job on git.qemu.org can't
>>> just run "git svn fetch && git svn rebase" directly against OpenBIOS SVN
>>> to update its master branch?
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>>
>>>> Unless I'm missing something, the only question is which mirror do we
>>>> use, not whether we use a mirror.
>>>
>>> The problem at the moment is that the repository on git.qemu.org is
>>> pointing to a git repository on a plain IP address (with no sensible
>>> reverse DNS) and so far no-one has admitted ownership. This was a
>>> problem last week when the repository stopped syncing with OpenBIOS SVN
>>> trunk and both Stefan and myself had no idea who to contact in order to
>>> get it fixed.
>>
>> It's also an obvious problem in terms of tracability and trust
>> of the code we're shipping to people... We must fix this for 2.4
>> (or ideally ASAP) I think.
> 
> Okay.  I will set up a cronjob to use git-svn to grab the latest
> OpenBIOS from upstream soon.

Hi Stefan,

As it's freeze coming up, I need to send an OpenBIOS pull request fairly
soon. Do you need anything from me to get this done beforehand?


ATB,

Mark.