Re: [gentoo-systemd] How to handle systemd stable branch?

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Dnia 2014-02-28, o godz. 23:21:33
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> I didn't notice the presence of:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/
>>
>> Until now, looks like it's "official" per:
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Backports/
>>
>> How should we "package" it? cgit provides tarballs at:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/?id=255eb046a7bcb90e60a3a54302bc1250c1aed26a
>>
>> For example:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/snapshot/systemd-stable-255eb046a7bcb90e60a3a54302bc1250c1aed26a.tar.gz
>>
>> How would you like to prepare that tarballs? How often?
>
> Hmm, I wonder if it'd be better to prep tarballs or just grab patchsets
> off that repo.
>
> Though creating tarballs ourselves (via make dist-xz) would allow us to
> avoid autoreconf.
>

I definitely prefer not having to autoreconf. Applying patches is
certainly not a horrible thing either, but I don't see any advantage
to doing it that way.

As for timing: once every month or two seems like a good frequency,
assuming nothing critical pops up. If someone can follow the commits
closely enough, that can be fine-tuned down to the as-needed schedule
that Greg suggests.