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Re: glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed
- From: Tom de Vries <Tom_deVries at mentor dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GLIBC Devel<libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:57:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed
- References: <50321CC1.4080906@mentor.com> <50339710.5070003@systemhalted.org>
> I've checked in the following:
>
> 2012-08-21 Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
> Tom de Vries <tom_devries@mentor.com>
>
> * download.html: Checking out ports no longer required as of 2.16.
>
> Index: download.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /web/libc/libc/download.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -u -r1.4 download.html
> --- download.html 13 Aug 2012 13:38:51 -0000 1.4
> +++ download.html 21 Aug 2012 14:00:58 -0000
> @@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
> <p>
> Releases are available by source branch checkout and ftp tarball.
> For example, to download the 2.16 release, checkout the
> - libc branch release/2.16/master, and similarly for all
> - required add-ons including ports.
> + libc branch release/2.16/master. As of 2.16 the contributed ports
> + add-ons have been folded into the main git repo and no longer need
> + to be checked out.
> <p>
> <p>
> e.g.
Carlos,
The way I read this is that it says that if I check out the 2.16 release from
the glibc git, I also find the ports dir in there, which is not the case.
For the 2.16 release, we still need the glibc-ports git.
I've attached a patch to correct this.
Thanks,
- Tom
> @@ -37,9 +38,6 @@
> git checkout --track -b local_glibc-2.16 origin/release/2.16/master</pre>
> </p>
> <p>
> - Similarly for all required add-ons including ports.
> -</p>
> -<p>
> To list the current set of branches use:<pre>git branch -a</pre>
> </p>
>
> @@ -58,7 +56,7 @@
> </pre>
> </p>
> <p>
> - To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on:
> + To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on (for 2.16 and older release branches, see also README.ports-moved-to-libc):
> <pre>
> git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc-ports.git <a href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc-ports.git">[gitweb]</a>
> </pre>
> ---
>
2012-10-01 Tom de Vries <tom@codesourcery.com>
* download.html: Checking out ports no longer required after 2.16.
Index: download.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/libc/libc/download.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 download.html
--- download.html 21 Aug 2012 16:09:17 -0000 1.6
+++ download.html 1 Oct 2012 13:36:39 -0000
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
<p>
Releases are available by source branch checkout and ftp tarball.
For example, to download the 2.16 release, checkout the
- libc branch release/2.16/master. As of 2.16 the contributed ports
+ libc branch release/2.16/master, and similarly for all required add-ons
+ including ports. After the 2.16 release the contributed ports
add-ons have been folded into the main git repo and no longer need
to be checked out separately.
<p>