> On Jan 23, 2025, at 7:30 PM, Mark Millard <mark...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org> wrote on
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:15:04 UTC :
>
>> [-9fans, +freebsd-current as 9fans adds a reply-to: 9fans line]
>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2025, at 3:53 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I fail to see how putting code in the kernel is better than just using got
>>> for the few people that are alergic to git. Even if it is only 1000 lines
>>> in plan 9, but likely more in FreeBSD and by the way not yet ported to
>>> FreeBSD. We know got can't crash the system and is small enough to not
>>> matter, even if it isn't in the base today.
>>
>>
>> May I suggest:
>> - always ship the *commit hash* for any release or snapshot with its base.txz
>
> For stable/* and main builds via PkgBase:
>
> I'll note that, for PkgBase, the commit hashes for the "base" vs. the "kernel"
> need not be identical from what I've seen. In other words, the separate
> packages for /usr/src/sys/ vs. for the rest of /usr/src/ need not be
> based on the exact-same commit hash.
News to me. Since there is one repo for /usr/src and /usr/src/sys, this would
mess things up. Why have more or less two identical repos. In the quick hack
script below I assume one. This will need more work, this was just a PoC to
show what I mean. For an existing local repo the script can be enhanced to
fetch to a later commit hash (or one can just use git).
#!/bin/sh
cmd=`basename $0`
case .$2 in
.) echo Usage: $cmd url commit-hash; exit 1;;
esac
if [ -e .git ]; then echo $cmd: .git already exists; exit 1; fi
# check if there are any other files
if [ ! -z "$(ls -A)" ] ; then
echo $cmd: directory must be empty
exit 1
fi
git init
git remote add origin $1
git fetch --depth=1 origin $2 || exit 1
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
>
> Releases avoid that via the explicit control of when the releng/*.* content is
> updated: no update happens between and teh result happens to always match
> because of that (if I understand right).
>
> This seems to be something new for any official FreeBSD builds of stable/* and
> main .
>
>> - src.txz as now (or add commit hash)
>
> See above if a stable/* or main context might involve PkgBase
> build instead.
>
>> - this is enough to download a repo (1-deep or whatever), bare if src.txz
>> was also unpacked.
>> - add a simple script to download as above.
>> - people can install whatever git client they want for further work.
>>
>> git9 doesn't require any kernel code but on freebsd you'd have to
>> use plan9port. It is far simpler but has a different interface.
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
