On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:08 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Stefano Stabellini > <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > >> >> +LINUX_URL=ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/$(LINUX_V).tar.xz > >> >> + > >> >> +all: $(VMLINUZ) > >> > > >> > I think it is best if we git clone it. > >> > >> Is that still true if unpatched 3.18.6 works? I don't know if there > >> is a desire to reduce load on kernel.org, for example. > > > > That's a good point. I think git clone would be more inline with any > > other external project that we use. However I'll let the other > > maintainers decide on this. > > It takes a *loooooooong* time to download a full Linux git tree, and > it takes up a huge amount of disk space. It would be a lot more > convenient to be able to just download a tarball.
git clone --depth=<some small N> to create a shallow clone? Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
