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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Different xen-3.4.3.tar.gz in Fedora RPM
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Keir Fraser wrote:
On 18/06/2010 13:10, "Joanna Rutkowska" <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So, I downloaded xen-3.4.3.tar.gz from fedora mirror (using their
original Makefile for RPM building), and diffed the two versions --
changes (cosmetic cleanup mostly) are innocent, but, hey, why would
anybody do such a thing? After allm we would expect only one version of
xen-XXX.tar.gz, right? Patches should be the proper way for customizing
tarballs for packaging, no?
Or am I missing something?
Well, I think this and your other point have one simple answer. If I wanted
the maximum possible confidence in the bits I was building, I would obtain
them from the original source, as it were. In this case that means, for
example:
# hg clone -r RELEASE-3.4.3 http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg
If you want your own tarball for some reason:
# hg archive -t tgz xen-3.4.3.tar.gz
It doesn't seem very hard to me. I maintain the repo and sign the releases
myself. Downloading tarballs from Fedora, or even from our own xen.org
website, introduces more people between you and me. And it seems you very
likely care about that.
Though bear in mind that producing xen-3.4.3.tar.gz in this way means you
will download the qemu parts from
http://xenbits.xensource.com/git-http/qemu-xen-3.4-testing.git at build
time, which might not be what you want.
Michael Young
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