[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:22:13AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>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.

And why is upstream development being done from a Fedora SCM checkout?

josh