Re: new kyua import

From: Moin Rahman <bofh_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:04:49 UTC

> On Jan 2, 2024, at 4:04 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:26:49AM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:41 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:37:01AM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:35 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:23 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It looks like the kyua repo here has received a number of bug fixes
>>>>>>> since kyua was last re-imported back into the base system.  It looks
>>>>>>> like neither the base system copy nor devel/kyua in the ports tree is
>>>>>>> being kept up to date with https://github.com/freebsd/kyua.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In particular, we're missing a fix for
>>>>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273481 which is
>>>>>>> available in github.  That bug is causing occasional failed CI runs.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Would anyone volunteer to import the latest version of kyua into the
>>>>>>> base system?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am not a src committer but if you want I can create a separate port
>>>>>> for that. jmmv@ has been mia for a while and our fork is ahead of the
>>>>>> original one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you, but is there really a need to add a new port?  Can we just
>>>>> switch to https://github.com/freebsd/kyua as the upstream?  jmmv/kyua
>>>>> has not gotten any new development or bug fixes in a long time, and I
>>>>> cannot see any other places where kyua development is ongoing.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>> Moin
>>>> 
>>>> We can wait for 2 weeks for the timeout then. :)
>>> 
>>> Sounds good to me, thank you.  I don't use kyua from the ports tree (and
>>> I don't think our jenkins does either) but other folks may be interested
>>> in the update.
>>> 
>>> We still need someone to do the import into the src tree.  I can try but
>>> I'm not experienced with vendor imports, and I don't particularly want
>>> to change that. :)
>> 
>> 
>> Do you know how to submit a review for a vendor tree import? It's easy
>> importing but I need someone to review it. As it is totally a seperate
>> tree it is difficult to submit the review itself. Although the commit
>> for the merge might be submitted for the review.
> 
> You can upload arbitrary diffs to phabricator, so you could diff the
> tree before and after the merge and upload the resulting patch.  And
> maybe push the merge somewhere to let others take a look and verify that
> it appears to be done correctly.
> 
> I'm also happy to test the import (probably not until late this week
> though).

Okiz I will do that.

Kind regards,
Moin