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[Xen-devel] Repositories and build system

To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Repositories and build system
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:41:56 +0100
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Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Fix HVM PCI hot 
removal failure"):
> A two way synchronization between the qemu hg mirror and the qemu git
> repo would mean trouble.
> 
> Maybe we could find a way to mirror the qemu git repo inside the
> xen-unstable hg repo, but it would still just a mirror.

I agree that the current situation isn't ideal.  I had hoped that we
could avoid constantly making changes that introduce cross-repository
incompatibilities but it seems to be too difficult to do that.  We
keep introducing new lockstep changes.

Stefano's idea of mirroring the qemu git repo inside the xen-unstable
hg repo would be one approach.  It could probably be done, although it
would be a novel arrangement.

I think a better thing to try would be to make it easier for people to
pull and update all of the sub-repos at once.  It's not just qemu - we
have linux (which is in at least two major branches: 2.6.18 and pvops)
and now some of the Ocaml work too.  Perhaps it's time to create a
meta-component which permits `make pull', `make world', etc. ?

Ian.

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