On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 07:33 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:44 AM Jens Rehsack <rehs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Am 15.09.2020 um 00:34 schrieb Bruce Ashfield < > > > bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > From: Jens Rehsack <s...@netbsd.org> > > > > > > Backporting the 10 patches since the lttng 2.12.2 release. We'll > > > drop > > > them once .3 is released, but for now, we need the fixes to build > > > > Yet another question: there is a stable-2.12 branch ... wouldn't it > > be reasonable to use this one as upstream source instead of the > > tarball? > > > > We used to do that .. yes. But then the lttng recipe was changed away > from git to using the tgz. > > I complained at the time (I'm sure it is in the archives for all to > see), since I'm constantly doing new kernels and have to do this sort > of exercise. > > The devupstream bbclass allows me to keep moving on my new kernels > when I need to pick up changes for -dev, and luckily -stable doesn't > normally need this sort of thing. > > IIRC it was switched to tgz since things like AUH work better with the > tarballs, but I can't be sure. > > But let's just say that I agree that this recipe is better as a branch > based, git recipe and not a tgz based recipe. I just haven't waded > into the discussion to switch it back :)
Perhaps we have a need for both? Cheers, Richard
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