On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 12:58 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41 PM Jeremy Cline <jeremy(a)jcline.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This should come as no surprise to those who have been following
> > the
> > kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there
> > are
> > some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in
> > the
> > next couple of weeks.
> >
> > For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist-
> > git,
> > this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be
> > easier.
> >
> > We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in
> > the
> > dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts
> > to
> > turn the source tree into something that can be automatically
> > checked
> > into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the
> > dist-
> > git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
> >
> > The git repository is currently hosted at
> >
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/. Documentation (still
> > very
> > rough) for common tasks is at
> >
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/wikis/home. There are a
> > few
> > outstanding merge requests to get the tree fully synced up with the
> > current state of the dist-git repository, so if you decide to jump
> > in
> > and try things out, be aware things might not work.
>
> This looks like it will completely remove the need for
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora.git
>
> Is that correct? (Please let it be correct.)
>
Eventually, yes. To start with we're just going to do Rawhide this
way, but assuming things go well handling stable releases the same way
should be straight-forward.
Great. Please let me know when I can stop generating that tree.
josh