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

[Pacho Ramos]

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) :/