On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 03:01:54PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 31.08.2021 14:36, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > Update to the latest stable tag.
> 
> Largely out of curiosity - if that's truly a tag, ...

Well, it's a git tag, but it's not signed by upstream :-(.

Upstream started to do a release for OVMF every 3 months somewhat
recently. They will stop taking new feature and only take fixes for a
couple of weeks, then tag the tree.

> > --- a/Config.mk
> > +++ b/Config.mk
> > @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ QEMU_TRADITIONAL_URL ?= 
> > git://xenbits.xen.org/qemu-xen-traditional.git
> >  SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_URL ?= git://xenbits.xen.org/seabios.git
> >  MINIOS_UPSTREAM_URL ?= git://xenbits.xen.org/mini-os.git
> >  endif
> > -OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?= b37cfdd2807181aed2fee1e17bd7ec1190db266a
> > +OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?= 7b4a99be8a39c12d3a7fc4b8db9f0eab4ac688d5
> 
> ... why not refer to it here and instead spell out a hash?

Since the tag isn't signed, it's probably better to keep using a hash.

-- 
Anthony PERARD

Reply via email to