Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] git-submodule.sh: Do not try writing to source directory if not necessary

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 25/10/17 03:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 October 2017 at 17:27, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:58:53PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> I compile out of tree on a remote guest system where I mount the
>>> source directory as "readonly" and build directory as "rw" and
>>> scripts/git-submodule.sh tries writing to the source directory even when
>>> I manually update modules on a host machine which is quite annoying.
>>>
>>> Is this something acceptable? Or I am missing something here?
>>
>> How did you update the modules - did you manually run  'git submodule update...'
>> or did you use the git-submodule.sh script on your host machine ?
>>
>> If you run git-submodule.sh on the host, then it should save the status
>> file, and then when you run make on the guest system, it should notice
>> that you're already updated and never even invoke 'git-submodule.sh update'
>>
>> I'm not against your proposal below, but I'm curious why you're seeing
>> 'git-submodule.sh update' being run by make in the first place.
> 
> I don't think "git checkout on the fileserver, then build on the
> remote machine" is a particularly weird workflow. I'm starting
> to feel that the idea of doing git updates during "make" is not
> so good as it initially seemed; it's just not something that
> people expect to have happen during the build step.


This is exactly the point. When you do out of tree compile, the last thing
you want is "make" to touch anything in the source tree.


-- 
Alexey