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. https://01.org/clearlinux Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel