Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree

[Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:23:26PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
[...]
> Is there a good reason to do this instead of dropping the binary in
> the repo?  Downloading files at "make install" time tends to be
> problematic for distributions.  Also it assumes that the installation
> machine has Internet access, xenbits.xensource.com is alive, and adds
> a dependency on yet another mercurial repo for installation.
> 
> If you'd rather keep it out of the repo, maybe it could be downloaded
> via another make target, which would then be integrated to the
> top-level make default target.  That way a "make install" doesn't have
> further network dependencies.

I suppose this is a good point from a packaging and distribution man.

Tristan.

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