Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:34 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

Are you suggesting that the path be stored at a known location on
kernel.org? Such that it can be read and the tools like ketchup can find
where a particular version resides?

-- Steve


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