[Apparmor-dev] kernel repository?

John Johansen jjohansen at suse.de
Wed Jan 9 12:18:30 MST 2008


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:19:02PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> 09 Oca 2008 Çar tarihinde, John Johansen şunları yazmıştı: 
> > No currently all development is done as a quilt patch series against the
> > kernel.  We used to have a git repo before the project was moved to Novell
> > forge, but Novell forge still doesn't (as far as I know) support git.
> >
> > I have been thinking of providing another entry in the repository of
> > the apparmor module that can be built as an external module on kernels
> > that have the necessary vfs patches (opensuse 10.3, ubuntu 7.10, mandriva,
> > ..).
> 
> I'm happy with quilt series, but if possible i want to request more frequent 
> updates for SVN. Patches in openSUSE kernel, the ones submitted to LKML and 
> others in SVN are different from each other and it is really confusing to 
> understand which one is more up2date :)
> 
yes, I have been terrible about this, and it has to change.  The
series submitted to LKML is based off the one in trunk but it is against
-mm and hence has changes and some of the patches folded in.  What is
worse is that series isn't in the svn.  In fact there is too much that
just isn't in the svn at the moment.

What I need to do is get the -mm branch checked in, and fold in some of
the patches on trunk.  I also need to get the experimental branch
backup as a series of patches on top of trunk, instead of being its own
complete branch.

I also need to get better about checking work into svn trunk but that would
cause things to break more.  Perhaps I should set up another branch to
work from and move thing over when they are mostly working?

I am sorry I haven't done this already, the last couple months have been
very hectic.  I will work on doing this over the next week, as I bring
up the current patch set.  The goal for now being having a trunk based
off of current git and an -mm branch, with the experimental branch containing
the patches that need more evaluation as to whether they should become
a part of AA (mount rules, rlimits, ...)

regards
john
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