From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3B3x-0002Ik-71 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:35:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3B3s-0008S9-7q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:35:05 -0400 Received: from s16892447.onlinehome-server.info ([82.165.15.123]:53329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3B3s-0008Rm-1i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:35:00 -0400 Message-ID: <557A0CFF.8080601@ilande.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:34:39 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <554C9EEB.1010308@ilande.co.uk> <20150519104200.GA27737@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> <555B32B8.7020808@suse.de> <555BA152.5040908@ilande.co.uk> <20150609102221.GB27900@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150609102221.GB27900@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] openbios.git mirror on git.qemu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi , Peter Maydell Cc: Blue Swirl , Alexander Graf , =?windows-1252?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel 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 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.