Re: glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On 8/20/2012 7:17 AM, Tom de Vries wrote:
>> Now that Roland has put the merge of ports onto master, I have applied the
>> changes to version.h to open up 2.17 development (plus added a skeleton
>> section to NEWS to start recording bugs fixed in 2.17), and added the
>> README.ports-moved-to-libc file to the ports repository.  The hooks in the
>> ports repository should now be configured to disallow future commits to
>> master (until the point, maybe in a month or two, when we remove all files
>> from master other than README.ports-moved-to-libc).
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> the patch below makes it explicit in the web pages that the ports add-on is only
> for 2.16 and older.
> 
> I would like to become member of libc group with my savannah account such that I
> can check out the web sources and propose a proper patch, is that ok?

I'd be happy to have more help with the website :-)

Do you need that permission in order to checkout the website?

e.g. Following these instructions.
https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=libc
 
> Thanks,
>  -Tom
> 
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html:
> ...
> --- download.html.orig	2012-08-20 12:15:41.089638706 +0200
> +++ download.html	2012-08-20 12:34:41.205648330 +0200
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
>    </pre>
>  <p></p>
>  <p>
> -  To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on:
> +  To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on (for 2.16 and older
> release branches, see also README.ports-moved-to-libc):
>    </p><pre>git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc-ports.git <a
> href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc-ports.git";>[gitweb]</a>
>    </pre>
>  <p></p>
> ...
> 

I've checked in the following:

2012-08-21  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
	    Tom de Vries  <tom_devries@mentor.com>

	* download.html: Checking out ports no longer required as of 2.16.

Index: download.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/libc/libc/download.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 download.html
--- download.html       13 Aug 2012 13:38:51 -0000      1.4
+++ download.html       21 Aug 2012 14:00:58 -0000
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
 <p>
   Releases are available by source branch checkout and ftp tarball.
   For example, to download the 2.16 release, checkout the
-  libc branch release/2.16/master, and similarly for all
-  required add-ons including ports.
+  libc branch release/2.16/master. As of 2.16 the contributed ports
+  add-ons have been folded into the main git repo and no longer need
+  to be checked out.
 <p>
 <p>
    e.g.
@@ -37,9 +38,6 @@
 git checkout --track -b local_glibc-2.16 origin/release/2.16/master</pre>
 </p>
 <p>
-   Similarly for all required add-ons including ports.
-</p>
-<p>
    To list the current set of branches use:<pre>git branch -a</pre>
 </p>

@@ -58,7 +56,7 @@
   </pre>
 </p>
 <p>
-  To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on:
+  To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on (for 2.16 and older release branches, see also README.ports-moved-to-libc):
   <pre>
 git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc-ports.git <a href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc-ports.git";>[gitweb]</a>
   </pre>
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