RE: [Xen-devel] default xen "make world" again dependent on non-xenbits repositories and non-http protocol

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned we've made a conscious decision to make an
> > exception for git.kernel.org, which is after all a very high-profile
> > site that a lot of people depend on which ought not to be down very
> > often or for very long.
> 
> Understood, but the problem (in this case) is not the server
> but the protocol... I don't claim to understand this well, but
> I'm told that git isn't handled by standard proxies.
> 
> I believe there's an http hg mirror for the kernel but
> I don't know if it works for anything but the main branch.
> 
> Lacking any other solution, is there any easy way for "make world"
> to determine immediately if git.kernel.org is NOT accessible
> via the git protocol (or at least via something like "make check")?
> 
> OR as an absolute minimum the issue should be in the main README.
> 
> Yes, I know I should be able to work around this, but I am
> in part speaking up for all the newbies that would like to work
> on Xen but find "getting started" is too difficult.
> 

We could make everyone happy using git over http:

diff -r 6f63970032a3 buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops
--- a/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops   Fri Oct 02 09:10:27 2009 +0100
+++ b/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-pvops   Wed Oct 07 17:11:07 2009 +0100
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 XEN_LINUX_CONFIG_UPDATE := buildconfigs/enable-xen-config
 
-XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?= 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
+XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?= 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
 XEN_LINUX_GIT_REMOTEBRANCH ?= xen/master
 
 EXTRAVERSION ?=
diff -r 6f63970032a3 buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest
--- a/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest      Fri Oct 02 09:10:27 2009 +0100
+++ b/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-tip-latest      Wed Oct 07 17:11:07 2009 +0100
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 XEN_LINUX_CONFIG_UPDATE := buildconfigs/enable-xen-config
 
-XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?= 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
+XEN_LINUX_GIT_URL ?= 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
 XEN_LINUX_GIT_REMOTEBRANCH ?= auto-latest
 
 EXTRAVERSION ?=

---

but the problem is that it seems to be broken for Jeremy's tree (the
others work fine).


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