On 09/06/15 11:22, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:55:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 19 May 2015 at 21:47, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> On 19/05/15 13:55, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> >>>> Am 19.05.2015 um 12:42 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: >>>>> Ping. Should we stick with an old mirror of OpenBIOS for QEMU 2.4 or >>>>> switch to the official upstream repo? >>>> >>>> I don't quite understand the question. OpenBIOS is still using SVN >>>> AFAIK. QEMU is using Git, so I thought we always need a Git mirror for >>>> submodules? Has the git-svn integration been extended to svn submodules >>>> and which versions of git support that? >>> >>> I'm not sure why submodules make anything different >> >> They mean we can't literally just point our submodule at upstream, >> because upstream isn't a git repo and submodules must point >> at git repos. (However I think we generally prefer to point at >> a git.qemu.org mirror of upstream's repo anyway.) >> >>> , but for an SVN >>> repository I can't see why the nightly cron job on git.qemu.org can't >>> just run "git svn fetch && git svn rebase" directly against OpenBIOS SVN >>> to update its master branch? >> >> Sounds reasonable. >> >>>> Unless I'm missing something, the only question is which mirror do we >>>> use, not whether we use a mirror. >>> >>> The problem at the moment is that the repository on git.qemu.org is >>> pointing to a git repository on a plain IP address (with no sensible >>> reverse DNS) and so far no-one has admitted ownership. This was a >>> problem last week when the repository stopped syncing with OpenBIOS SVN >>> trunk and both Stefan and myself had no idea who to contact in order to >>> get it fixed. >> >> It's also an obvious problem in terms of tracability and trust >> of the code we're shipping to people... We must fix this for 2.4 >> (or ideally ASAP) I think. > > Okay. I will set up a cronjob to use git-svn to grab the latest > OpenBIOS from upstream soon.
Hi Stefan, As it's freeze coming up, I need to send an OpenBIOS pull request fairly soon. Do you need anything from me to get this done beforehand? ATB, Mark.
