On 2/25/2011 7:19, MichaÅ Piotrowski wrote: >> I've got an interesting idea - why not to provide a git repository >> with the sources of current Fedora kernel? This could simplify the >> maintenance of patches, allows other to easily backport stuff from >> kernel.org's master and greatly improves the current situation with >> transparency of development process. >> >> I mean I almost sure that Fedora Kernel team uses git internally, so >> why not to allow others to fork it? > > git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/kernel That repository has the spec file and build files; he means using git for the kernel sources themselves. Rather than keeping a stack of patches and porting them forward all the time, one can instead keep Fedora's patched kernel sources in a git repository and then include kernel-2.6.38-1.1.fc15.tar.bz2 in the source RPM instead of vanilla kernel-2.6.38.tar.bz2 and fifty patches. Red Hat appears to do this with RHEL 6's kernel, but their kernel repository is not publicly-accessible. While I can see how this might make things a bit easier, it can obscure what commits are Fedora-specific as they are lost in the sea of the upstream kernel's commits, making me firmly against the proposal. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
