On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 7:43 AM Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a huge Microsoft monorepo: > > https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples > > It's distributed under MS-PL, see earlier discussion: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZSVCFJFVMLTODFKGV352TYHH5ZQODJXD/ > > For virt-v2v we want a single tool called devcon. The tool will get > copied into Windows VMs during conversion to allow some drivers to be > uninstalled. Devcon is just a few files: > > https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/main/setup/devcon > > vs the entire repo (3590 files in countless directories). > > I built an RPM already for testing. The source tarball is 15 MB > compressed if I include the entire repo, or 38K if I include only the > source files needed to compile devcon. > > Any thoughts on this? Also about naming? > > I suspect it's unlikely we'd ever need anything else from the monorepo > in Fedora. >
I'd suggest handling it like a repo with non-redistributable code: write a script that pulls the upstream 15MiB tarball down, strips out everything except what you plan to ship and then include the script and the "sanitized" tarball in the package. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
