Re: Upcoming Fedora kernel workflow changes

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:21 PM Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 12:58 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41 PM Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > This should come as no surprise to those who have been following
> > > the
> > > kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there
> > > are
> > > some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in
> > > the
> > > next couple of weeks.
> > >
> > > For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist-
> > > git,
> > > this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be
> > > easier.
> > >
> > > We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in
> > > the
> > > dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts
> > > to
> > > turn the source tree into something that can be automatically
> > > checked
> > > into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the
> > > dist-
> > > git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
> > >
> > > The git repository is currently hosted at
> > > https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/. Documentation (still
> > > very
> > > rough) for common tasks is at
> > > https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/wikis/home. There are a
> > > few
> > > outstanding merge requests to get the tree fully synced up with the
> > > current state of the dist-git repository, so if you decide to jump
> > > in
> > > and try things out, be aware things might not work.
> >
> > This looks like it will completely remove the need for
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora.git
> >
> > Is that correct?  (Please let it be correct.)
> >
>
> Eventually, yes. To start with we're just going to do Rawhide this
> way, but assuming things go well handling stable releases the same way
> should be straight-forward.

Great.  Please let me know when I can stop generating that tree.

josh
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