Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > I think it was part of a trac page. Oh - yeah, I guess it's possible to get tarballs out of trac.
> Anyway, a canonical download location for flashrom is the way to > go. Yes for sure! It would be nice to have a flashrom directory in qa/snapshots/ The posthook will be simple with these Makefile changes. > >> +# Note to packagers: Any tree exported with "make export" or "make > >> tarball" > >> +# will not require subversion. > > > > Do we need to say so? It think it is really intuitive that a snapshot > > doesn't require svn. > > Considering that packagers patch it out at the moment, I'd like to > give them a hint that make export solves the issue. Or we can provide tarballs. Everyone likes tarballs. > Having the revision in releases+snapshots also allows us to quickly > go to the correct revision without having to look it up or switch > branches. Sure. > Plus, it kills two unnecessary commits per release. Only unneccessary if they feel that way. > > Well, it exports the working copy, which might have changes. At least > > add -r to the export. > > Again, it's not really the repo contents. With -r it is, then maybe > > just say Created $filename because tar and the rev are part of the > > filename? > > OK. Should we use the (unmodified) repo contents or the directory > contents? svn export -r from a path gives both. See --help If the unique atom in the export is the rev number, I think it makes sense to try to avoid changes made after that rev. > > Really in the README? Do we have INSTALL? Maybe it's time? > > Good point. I'd postpone splitting to another patch, though. I have no strong opinion. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
