Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Junio C Hamano]

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 17:11 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
>> What would you consider a reasonable turnaround time? 3 month? 6 month?
>> More?
>> 
>> We could make a decision now, you update ketchup immediately, and the
>> actual change happens at the specified date in the future.
>> 
>
> Usually users don't update ketchup until it breaks ;)

Then the archive location can change immediately after you issue an update
;-)

Would it be an option for a newer version of ketchup to have a fallback
codepath to read a machine-readable description of how the archive is
structured from a known location?  E.g. instead of appending a hard-coded
string '/people/akpm/patches/2.6/' when computing latest_mm(), the script
would read that "relative path to mm" from such a description file.  The
logic of doing 'url = "%s/v%s/%s" % (kernel_url, t, f)' in install_nearest
would similarly be customizable, without too much hassle, I think.
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