On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:55:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 19 May 2015 at 21:47, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@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.
Okay. I will set up a cronjob to use git-svn to grab the latest OpenBIOS from upstream soon. Stefan
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