Process for handlng fakesyncs
Kees Cook
kees at ubuntu.com
Sun Feb 14 21:31:06 GMT 2010
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:17:20PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 14.02.2010, 02:54 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory:
> > 2) A fakesync should use a revision of "-Xfakesync", and appropriate
> > tools should understand the semantics of this revision to perform sync
> > or merge correctly
>
> We should use a revision of "-XfakesyncY" starting with "-Xfakesync1".
> When we need to do a rebuild, the revision will be increased to
> "-Xfakesync2".
Yes, +1. As someone who needs to sometimes do no-change uploads to get
things built after changes to the compiler, there needs to be a trailing
serial number even for a fakesync.
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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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