On 30 August 2011 10:50, Christian Robottom Reis <k...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:46:55AM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >> Because we push everything upstream. > > While I agree with that blanket statement, there's no reason we wouldn't > provide a [potentially temporary] version of repo that included the > changes we're pushing upstream. > > We do this for every one of the components we ship, so I see no > philosophical reason why we wouldn't do so for repo. > > Is there a technical reason?
repo bootstraps itself by syncing the repo guts from google, google signs the repo guts so that people know that they're using a trusted source. As our repo in not a trusted source, people may be reluctant to use it and will instead use Google's version which won't work 100% of the time for the reasons already discussed. > -- > Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP > Brazil (GMT-3) | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | [+1] 612 216 4935 > Linaro.org: Open Source Software for ARM SoCs > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
