From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2358 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2012 00:23:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 2343 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2012 00:23:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from toast.topped-with-meat.com (HELO topped-with-meat.com) (204.197.218.159) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:23:06 +0000 Received: by topped-with-meat.com (Postfix, from userid 5281) id 57D642C08B; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:23:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Carlos O'Donell Cc: , libc-alpha Subject: Re: Request for help: Fix building tarballs for ports add-on. In-Reply-To: Carlos O'Donell's message of Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:08:57 -0400 <4FD92B99.3050605@mentor.com> References: <4FD92B99.3050605@mentor.com> Message-Id: <20120614002303.57D642C08B@topped-with-meat.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:23:00 -0000 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=e8d9udV/ c=1 sm=1 a=uqV3N8H4O8kA:10 a=Z6MIti7PxpgA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=hOe2yjtxAAAA:8 a=14OXPxybAAAA:8 a=Jsj3-yjsFJ2RsSWD75QA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=WkljmVdYkabdwxfqvArNOQ==:117 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 I've been thinking that right after 2.16 will be a good time to consolidate the repositories (just the initial step, making it ports/ under the libc tree). So there might not be very many more iterations of doing this, though I guess 2.16.x could easily have a substantial upper bound for x. That said, automation ought to be well nigh trivial. Unless I've forgotten about something, we're just doing git archive | compressor-of-choice. Thanks, Roland