[RFC][PATCH] qemubuilder: Add qemu machine type overwrite.

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at mapreri.org
Fri Nov 13 17:32:04 UTC 2015


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:52:32PM +0100, Benedikt Spranger wrote:
> BTW: What is the prefered way to discuss some ideas around qemubuilder?

well, in general I see most of the people prefers handling everything as
bug reports.  It depends on the maintainer and happens both the current
cowdancer (source of qemubuilder maintainer) and me (=> actually the
only two active people in the pbuilder team) prefers BTS :)

Actually: I'm not that interested in cowdancer, I don't think I ever
committed something to it at all, that's why I didn't look at your
patch, I don't know the codebase and it'd take a lot of time.
The other maintainer (irl) filed a RFA (https://bugs.debian.org/802151),
he doesn't really have the time to deal with everything.

> IMHO the source of qemubuilder needs some refactoring:
> 
> 1) Arch configuration: Make all(nearly all) hardcoded values
>    configurable. I am contemplate in a per architecture configuration
>    snippets.
> 
> 2) Error handling: Fix return value. qemubuilder returned 0 in almost
>    every situation. This is awkward in an automated build environment.

agree, simply.

> 3) Coding style: It would be nice to have one :)


In my opinion if this is the case then you should just step up as a
co-maintainer of cowdancer, at least for qemubuilder.
And if you're going to do such refactoring/work then you should really
also look at the bug list.


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