[libvirt] Publishing libvirt 'patches' JSON database?
Kashyap Chamarthy
kchamart at redhat.com
Thu Mar 24 08:31:44 UTC 2016
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:46:53PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 04:34:26PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> [snip]
>
> So things turn out to be a bit more complicated for libvirt than for
> QEMU, because we have one mailing list accepting patches for 10+
> different git repositories.
Ah-ha, good point.
> Patches has no built-in support for this
> model, so you have to create a separate configuration file for each
> repo, so that it stores the patches json file separately for each
> and then pass that config file when fetching
>
> git clone git://github.com/stefanha/patches.git
>
> REPOS="libvirt libvirt-designer libvirt-glib libvirt-java
> libvirt-perl libvirt-php libvirt-python libvirt-sandbox
> libvirt-snmp libvirt-tck"
> for repo in $REPOS
> do
> cat > $HOME/.patchesrc-$repo <<EOF
> [options]
> patches_dir=$HOME/.patches/$repo
>
> [fetch]
> url=http://libvirt.org/patches/$repo/patches.json
> EOF
Yeah, this nicely solves it currently, thanks for clearly spelling it
out.
How often are the JSON databases updated? Once daily at least, I
presume.
> cat > $HOME/bin/patchesrc-$repo <<EOF
> #!/bin/sh
>
> exec $HOME/patches/patches --config $HOME/.patchesrc-$repo \$@
> EOF
>
> chmod +x $HOME/bin/patchesrc-$repo
> done
>
>
> Now, assuming $HOME/bin is in your $PATH, you can run
>
> $ patches-libvirt fetch
> $ patches-libvirt list
>
> Or to look at other repos, eg sandbox
>
>
> $ patches-libvirt-sandbox fetch
> $ patches-libvirt-sandbox list
> patchesrc-libvirt-sandbox list
> Message-id: 20160323074705.GA4974 at bogon.m.sigxcpu.org
> From: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> Date: 2016-03-23
> [1/1] Ignore generated file
>
> $ patches-libvirt-sandbox apply id:20160323074705.GA4974 at bogon.m.sigxcpu.org
>
> nb assumes your $CWD is the libvirt-sandbox git checkout
Excellent, I tested with just the libvirt repo, works perfectly well.
Thanks for the quick action!
--
/kashyap
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