[Libosinfo] [PATCHv2 1/4] rng: Allow template inclusion in install scripts

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Feb 28 12:45:37 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:14:52PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Christophe Fergeau
>> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>> >>
>> >> Sometimes we'll have a lot in common between rather long templates of
>> >> different OSs. To be able to share the templates, we need a way to
>> >> include templates from one XML file to another.
>> >>
>> >> XInclude[1] is the way we achieve that.
>> >
>> > NACK, https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-February/msg00118.html
>> > still stands (and yes I've seen
>> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-February/msg00139.html )
>>
>> A NACK without any indication of how to solve the problem at hand,
>> isn't very helpful. :)
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-February/msg00118.html has
> indications of what could be a better way of handling the xi:include. You
> resending your initial patch without indication of *why* you resend it
> unchanged is not helpful. Are you resending it because you think the
> initial approach was better than what I suggested? If yes, why? Do you
> agree that the approach I suggested is better but you hit a roadblock and
> would like some help solving it? I don't know anything about all of that, I
> just know that you tried a different approach, didn't manage to get it to
> work, and now you are resending your first patch, so my only option is
> NACKing it in the hope of getting my initial review comments addressed.

You suggested a better way and since I informed you that I tried that
without arguing against it, it should be obvious that I agreed with
you. Also since I informed you that I tried it and then I resend the
original patch, what other possibility remains than "I tried, failed
and will want to keep this patch unless you can help me out in making
it better"?

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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