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

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

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.

thanks
-- PMM