Re: [Xen-devel] New ipxe tarball

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:12:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: New ipxe tarball"):
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 06:10:47AM -0700, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > > Looks like new ipxe tarball disappeared from xenbits:
> 
> It was never there.
> 
> > > ostr:/tmp$  /usr/bin/wget -c -O _ipxe.tar.gz 
> > > http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/ipxe-git-827dd1bfee67daa683935ce65316f7e0f057fe1c.tar.gz
> > > --2016-10-16 09:07:20--  
> > > http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/ipxe-git-827dd1bfee67daa683935ce65316f7e0f057fe1c.tar.gz
> > > Resolving xenbits.xen.org (xenbits.xen.org)... 104.239.192.120
> > > Connecting to xenbits.xen.org (xenbits.xen.org)|104.239.192.120|:80... 
> > > connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> > > 2016-10-16 09:07:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> > > 
> > > ostr:/tmp$ 
> > > 
> > > I can see the previous version (ipxe-git-9a93db3...) but not the new one.
> 
> The code (AFAICT from looking at tools/firmware/etherboot/Makefile)
> first tries to download the tarball, and if that fails, uses git
> clone.
> 

Yes.

> Does the lack of the tarball cause your actual build to fail ?
> 
> I think it's probably sensible to retain this "try tarball first"
> arrangement but we should provide a tarball at least for tag mentioned
> in the release versions of Xen.
> 

I agree.

> Wei, are we expecting to update IPXE_GIT_TAG again ?
> 

No, not for this release.

I expect ipxe to be configurable just like qemu in the next release.

Wei.

> Ian.

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