From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Magenheimer Subject: RE: default xen "make world" again dependent on non-xenbits repositories and non-http protocol Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "Xen-Devel (E-mail)" , Ian Jackson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > We could make everyone happy using git over http: Excellent. +1! > +XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?=3D=20 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git > : > but the problem is that it seems to be broken for Jeremy's tree (the > others work fine). I'm told that Jeremy needs to set something in his git config file on kernel.org for this to work. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefano Stabellini [mailto:stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:12 AM > To: Dan Magenheimer > Cc: Ian Jackson; Xen-Devel (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] default xen "make world" again dependent on > non-xenbits repositories and non-http protocol >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > > As far as I'm concerned we've made a conscious decision to make an > > > exception for git.kernel.org, which is after all a very=20 > high-profile > > > site that a lot of people depend on which ought not to be=20 > down very > > > often or for very long. > >=20 > > Understood, but the problem (in this case) is not the server > > but the protocol... I don't claim to understand this well, but > > I'm told that git isn't handled by standard proxies. > >=20 > > I believe there's an http hg mirror for the kernel but > > I don't know if it works for anything but the main branch. > >=20 > > Lacking any other solution, is there any easy way for "make world" > > to determine immediately if git.kernel.org is NOT accessible > > via the git protocol (or at least via something like "make check")? > >=20 > > OR as an absolute minimum the issue should be in the main README. > >=20 > > Yes, I know I should be able to work around this, but I am > > in part speaking up for all the newbies that would like to work > > on Xen but find "getting started" is too difficult. > >=20 >=20 > We could make everyone happy using git over http: >=20 > diff -r 6f63970032a3 buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops > --- a/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops=09Fri Oct 02 09:10:27 2009 +0100 > +++ b/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops=09Wed Oct 07 17:11:07 2009 +0100 > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ > =20 > XEN_LINUX_CONFIG_UPDATE :=3D buildconfigs/enable-xen-config > =20 > -XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?=3D=20 > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git > +XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?=3D=20 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git > XEN_LINUX_GIT_REMOTEBRANCH ?=3D xen/master > =20 > EXTRAVERSION ?=3D > diff -r 6f63970032a3 buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest > --- a/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest=09Fri Oct 02=20 > 09:10:27 2009 +0100 > +++ b/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest=09Wed Oct 07=20 > 17:11:07 2009 +0100 > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ > =20 > XEN_LINUX_CONFIG_UPDATE :=3D buildconfigs/enable-xen-config > =20 > -XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?=3D=20 > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git > +XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?=3D=20 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git > XEN_LINUX_GIT_REMOTEBRANCH ?=3D auto-latest > =20 > EXTRAVERSION ?=3D >=20 > --- >=20 > but the problem is that it seems to be broken for Jeremy's tree (the > others work fine). >=20 >