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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA6

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, tgingold@xxxxxxx, xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree
From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:55:42 +0200
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:23:26PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
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> Is there a good reason to do this instead of dropping the binary in
> the repo?  Downloading files at "make install" time tends to be
> problematic for distributions.  Also it assumes that the installation
> machine has Internet access, xenbits.xensource.com is alive, and adds
> a dependency on yet another mercurial repo for installation.
> 
> If you'd rather keep it out of the repo, maybe it could be downloaded
> via another make target, which would then be integrated to the
> top-level make default target.  That way a "make install" doesn't have
> further network dependencies.

I suppose this is a good point from a packaging and distribution man.

Tristan.

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