On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 06:41:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 09/11/2016 04:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>Also, we are working on persuading the RISC-V community that they
>really must be more proactive in upstreaming their changes, something
>they have not been good about so far. For this reason, Fedora/RISC-V
>will try to get changes to the following packages upstream and won't
>even consider making changes in Fedora (IOW we'll be shipping forks of
>these packages for a while):
[For glibc, binutils, gcc, kernel only]
The “IOW“ part does not really make sense to me.
I mean that currently the changes to those packages are very invasive
and also involve substantial non-upstream patchsets.
I want those patchsets to go upstream first, and for the other
differences in the spec file to be substantially reduced or eliminated.
Do you plan to have a special branch in dist-git of these packages?
The details aren't worked out, but I imagine completely separate spec
files + patches for those packages, stored outside Fedora, and
infrequently rebased against Rawhide. A private-* branch in Fedora
dist-git would also work, but I understand that Fedora doesn't want to
give any "resources" to this architecture at the moment.
Rich.
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