glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed

[Tom de Vries]

> 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.

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