Re: [Qemu-devel] openbios.git mirror on git.qemu.org

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2015-06-11 23:34, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 09/06/15 11:22, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:55:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On 19 May 2015 at 21:47, Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> On 19/05/15 13:55, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Am 19.05.2015 um 12:42 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> >>>>> Ping.  Should we stick with an old mirror of OpenBIOS for QEMU 2.4 or
> >>>>> switch to the official upstream repo?
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't quite understand the question. OpenBIOS is still using SVN
> >>>> AFAIK. QEMU is using Git, so I thought we always need a Git mirror for
> >>>> submodules? Has the git-svn integration been extended to svn submodules
> >>>> and which versions of git support that?
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure why submodules make anything different
> >>
> >> They mean we can't literally just point our submodule at upstream,
> >> because upstream isn't a git repo and submodules must point
> >> at git repos. (However I think we generally prefer to point at
> >> a git.qemu.org mirror of upstream's repo anyway.)
> >>
> >>> , but for an SVN
> >>> repository I can't see why the nightly cron job on git.qemu.org can't
> >>> just run "git svn fetch && git svn rebase" directly against OpenBIOS SVN
> >>> to update its master branch?
> >>
> >> Sounds reasonable.
> >>
> >>>> Unless I'm missing something, the only question is which mirror do we
> >>>> use, not whether we use a mirror.
> >>>
> >>> The problem at the moment is that the repository on git.qemu.org is
> >>> pointing to a git repository on a plain IP address (with no sensible
> >>> reverse DNS) and so far no-one has admitted ownership. This was a
> >>> problem last week when the repository stopped syncing with OpenBIOS SVN
> >>> trunk and both Stefan and myself had no idea who to contact in order to
> >>> get it fixed.
> >>
> >> It's also an obvious problem in terms of tracability and trust
> >> of the code we're shipping to people... We must fix this for 2.4
> >> (or ideally ASAP) I think.
> > 
> > Okay.  I will set up a cronjob to use git-svn to grab the latest
> > OpenBIOS from upstream soon.
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> As it's freeze coming up, I need to send an OpenBIOS pull request fairly
> soon. Do you need anything from me to get this done beforehand?

For what I can see on the server, I confirm that the openbios.git
repository on git.qemu.org is point to a git server with a static IP.
Ideally we should run our own git-svn on the server.

Unfortunately the directory is owned by aliguori:aliguori so only
Anthony or an admin can probably fix that.

Aurelien

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