Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (75 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 03/31/2011 10:32 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently, -rc and stable release updates are done by adding patches to
> patches.kernel.org/. Especially the -rc1 patches are *huge* and cannot
> be paired with any other object in the repository, so their
> gzip-compressed size adds to the total repository size:
> $ git cat-file -p
> b9044e3353ff21f12a86788a18cf36ba1071b6ab:patches.kernel.org/patch-2.6.37-rc1
> | gzip -c -9 | wc -c
> 14627847
>
> that is almost 14 megabytes. So I would like to propose to more or less
> discontinue patches.kernel.org and instead use the SRCVERSION variable
> in rpm/config.sh. This is already used in the vanilla and linux-next
> branches and it works. Code changes are more easily reviewed in the
> kernel.git nowadays, tar-up.sh and sequence-patch also work if you don't
> have the tarball around (it generates one from git, which is arguably
> slower, but works), so I think it's worth doing it.

I like the idea. We don't ever modify those patches -- if we did, we're
doing something wrong.

The down side is that replacing the entire tarball means that the OBS
project gets a new tarball every time we do an -rc or -stable bump.
That's time consuming when syncing the project. If we could work it so
that it uses the incremental patches, that would be perfect.

- -Jeff

- -- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAk2UlXsACgkQLPWxlyuTD7IyTwCbBES6BbTUcg4KL3PGqygbf4dt
6O8An0nEdqu46T+hEeIHSbHUddF64T9t
=Sgxi
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx