On 12.07.23 21:00, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 07:02:34PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 12.07.23 17:16, Greg KH wrote: > [...] >>>> .. warning:: >>>> The branches in the -stable-rc tree are rebased each time a new -rc >>>> is released, as they are created by taking the latest release and >>>> applying the patches from the stable-queue on top. >>> >>> Yes, that is true, but they are also rebased sometimes in intermediate >>> places, before a -rc is released, just to give CI systems a chance to >>> test easier. > [...] >> Nevertheless makes me wonder: is that strategy wise in times when some >> ordinary users and some distributions are building kernels straight from >> git repos instead of tarballs? I'm one of those, as I distribute >> stable-rc packages for Fedora here: >> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/groups/g/kernel-vanilla/coprs/ > > As we keep the patches in quilt, not git, it's the best we can do. The > -rc releases are never a straight-line if we have to do multiple ones, > we remove patches in the middle, add them at the end or beginning, and > sometimes even change existing ones. > > All of this is stuff that a linear history tool like git can't really > model well, so we keep a quilt series of the patches in git for anyone > that want to generate the tree themselves, and we provide the -rc git > tree for those that don't want to generate it and can live with the > constant rebasing. /me first didn't want to reply, as this is not really important, but then reconsidered; again, feel free to just ignore this FWIW, I do not consider that rebasing to be problem at all; it are those rebases "sometimes in intermediate places, before a -rc is released, just to give CI systems a chance to test easier" make things this slightly annoying bit harder when you want to distribute stable-rc releases to users. But as I said, I can fully understand why you do those as well. I just with there was a way to reliably get a -rc release from git as well. Simply tagging them when you do a -rc release would solve all that. Is that maybe something that could be easily added to your -rc release scripts? /me looks at https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/tree/master/stable but failed to find the -rc release script :-/ Whatever, as I said, not really important. :-D Have a nice day everyone! Ciao, Thorsten
