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

[Pacho Ramos]

El sáb, 01-03-2014 a las 00:52 +0100, Michał Górny escribió:
> Dnia 2014-03-01, o godz. 00:21:32
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> napisał(a):
>
> > El vie, 28-02-2014 a las 23:36 +0100, Michał Górny escribió:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Umm, we sometimes do that (make dist-xz and a 209_pre$date) on gnome one
> > patchsets become so large. Our tarballs would have the advantage of
> > avoid running autoreconf indeed and also will let us to use XZ instead
> > of gzip (the one provided by cgit) :/
>
> Err, you know:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/snapshot/systemd-stable-255eb046a7bcb90e60a3a54302bc1250c1aed26a.tar.xz
>
> s/gz/xz/ and it works ;).
>
> Nevertheless, I think 'make dist' is more correct. I don't know if cgit
> aims at reproducible tarballs.
>

Didn't know that

Regarding the reproducibility, I think they are. I have seen lots of
cases in Fedora of .spec files relying on concrete snapshots from cgit