[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:16 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu October 9 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > Only if we allow source repo tags to be a suitable source distribution
> > method.  Since fedorahosted still doesn't have an easy to use way of
> > distributing tarballs, and getting the code via a scm checkout is quite
> > easy, it should suffice.
> 
> If this is the only obstacle to get this done, I will write a patch for 
> Makefile.common that displays the URL for every file in sources to fetch it 
> from the lookaside cache. Then this URL can be provided as source tarball on 
> a fedorahosted wiki page.

Why must we insist on tarballs?  Unless the tarball includes scm
metadata in it, it's practically useless for upstream patch development.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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