-----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@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org