On 10/10/2017 09:22 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Hi; we currently have an issue with the u-boot we're using where it
> has a file and a directory that differ only in case (scripts/Kconfig
> and scripts/kconfig/). This means that QEMU's release tarballs won't
> unpack on a case-insensitive filesystem (OSX, Windows).
> 
> u-boot have now fixed this upstream:
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=610eec7f0593574c034054ba54fc1c934755e208
> 
> but we need to decide how best to get this fix into QEMU so that
> our tarballs will unpack, both for the upcoming QEMU 2.11 and
> ideally for future point releases based on 2.10.
> 
> I can see a couple of options:
>  (1) wait for next u-boot release (scheduled for Nov 13, 2017),
>      and move to that
>      [downsides: would be in the middle of QEMU's own release cycle,
>       pretty late to fix any problems with the new version;
>       rather a big change to put into stable]
>  (2) move to u-boot current head-of-unstable
>      [downsides: would mean running some random git commit version,
>       also not really very suitable for stable]
>  (3) backport the upstream fix to sit on top of the u-boot version
>      we're currently using (I think the patch should apply as-is)
>      [downsides: would need to figure out how to get that commit into
>       the mirror of the u-boot repo that we use; would a build of it
>       claim a misleading u-boot version number?]
>  (4) suggest your better idea here!
> 
> Thoughts?

half-and-half? Use option (1) for 2.11 (that is, wait for November's
release there), but option (3) for 2.10.2 (that is, backport just the
fix onto the u-boot version uses in 2.10.x right now)?  (I'm not sure
I'm a fan of the idea of split maintenance like that, but am throwing it
out as a possible (4) since you asked).

> 
> (Proposals for automated tests to ensure we don't run into the
> case-sensitivity problem again in future also welcome.)

Would it be as simple as using

LC_ALL=C
filelist=$(... )
diff <(printf '%s\n' $filelist | sort -f) \
     <(printf '%s\n' $filelist | sort -f -u)

where filelist is determined by 'tar tf tarball' or by some invocation
of 'git ls-files'?  Perhaps something we can even add to checkpatch.pl,
although my perl is not strong enough to write that.

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