Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] archive-source.sh: Drop submodule code

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 04/04 10:24, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 05:07:56PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Wed, 04/04 09:23, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:51:59AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > > ./configure and make now take care of submodules, we only need to clone
> > > > the top tree.
> > > 
> > > If you don't include the submodules in the tar.gz archive, then the
> > > test system needs to be able to clone them from qemu.org, which
> > > requires networking.
> > > 
> > > The VM tests have networking by default, but the docker tests do
> > > not have networking - you need to opt-in by setting NETWORK=1
> > > make variable. So AFAICT, this will break docker tests.
> > 
> > Yes, I'll revise the patch.
> 
> BTW, I can't help feeling that scripts/archive-source.sh should not even
> exist. We already have scripts/make-release that has significant overlap
> of functionality and is used by 'make dist'. Ideally imho we should be
> able to either invoke 'make dist' for testing, or call make-release.

But it has the advantage that it, as test code, never messes with the process to
release QEMU.  :)

Fam