On 16 March 2015 at 23:15, Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
>> This makes it easier to apply stable branch patches on top of the
>> release tarball.
>> ---
>> Makefile.am | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>> index 856accb..0ed35ac 100644
>> --- a/Makefile.am
>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>> @@ -3877,7 +3877,9 @@ dist_udevhwdb_DATA = \
>>       hwdb/70-touchpad.hwdb
>>
>> EXTRA_DIST += \
>> -     units/systemd-hwdb-update.service.in
>> +     units/systemd-hwdb-update.service.in \
>> +     hwdb/ids-update.pl \
>> +     hwdb/sdio.ids
>
> I do not think that these files belong in the tarball. Especially the 
> sdio.ids is not something that should be in the tarball. If it is missing 
> locally, a script can always download it rom systemd.git tree. That is where 
> the source is for these and not the tarball.
>
> If you want to apply patches from git, then you can always tell git to 
> exclude these files and it will happily apply the rest of the patch. So I do 
> not see a good enough reason to do this.

I should be able to regenerate generated copies of code from things
included in the tarball without network or git... I need this
precisely because stable patches are patching sdio.ids... which is (a)
missing (b) ids-update.pl is missing (c) the files that are generated
with a&b are not updated....

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.

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