Hi, Fraser, This question is not about FSFLA, but rather about the GNU Linux-libre project, so I'm adding the project's mailing list to the response, and keeping i...@fsfla.org so that others in that group know the message was responded. Please remove i...@fsfla.org if you respond to this message.
On Apr 8, 2018, fraser kendall <scie...@leloft.co.uk> wrote: > I run linux-libre on eight machines and would like to upgrade them all > to (custom) latest kernels. Given the frequency of upgrades, I was > considering doing this from sources held on a local repository to save > your bandwidth. Would this be possible? If so, could you give me some > details as to which source repository you would prefer me to mirror. The only official source repository we maintain for GNU Linux-libre is the repository of deblobbing scripts, at https://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/ with branches at https://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/releases/branches and tags for upstream releases that required deblobbing changes at https://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/releases/tags These are Subversion repositories; you can 'svn checkout' any of the above, and then use the scripts to clean up upstream git tags. We have plans to maintain deblobbed sources in a git repository, but we're not quite there yet. Jason Self maintains an experimental repository at https://notabug.org/linux-libre/linux-libre.git but its form is most likely not what we're going to use. Specifically, its tags are not signed, and each tag references a commit based on the previous stable release, in a branch maintained for that stable line. This makes it hard to drop incorrectly-deblobbed versions, should we find them. I think we'll be better off creating each (signed) tag as an initial commit tag, so that we can keep our history clean of blobs even if we make mistakes (and then fix them), and no branches (they serve no real purpose as far as we're concerned). The repo could also contain the deblobbing scripts, those probably with branches and tags and whatnot, and signature files for the tarballs exported from the deblobbed tags, and perhaps xdeltas, and maybe some form of unidirectional diffs from the upstream non-Free tag to our deblobbed tag. > Many Thanks for all your hard work. > fraser Thanks for your support! -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist|Red Hat Brasil GNU Toolchain Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list linux-libre@fsfla.org http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre