Hi, As you may have noticed from the latest commit messages I have done some work on the revision control used for yaboot and prom-libc. First I have transitioned from the old /bin/sh "larch" implementation of arch to the new C implementation known as "tla". tla is a massive improvment over larch in both speed and reliablity, and general robustness. if you have been avoiding arch you may want to look at tla. tla changed the archive format slightly from that used by larch. I have converted all the archives in place with no major problems (a tiny bit of repair was needed on the yaboot--devel--1.3 branch). However the yaboot--devel--1.99 branch contained some slightly more complex problems due to a bug in an extremely old version of larch, rather then spend a lot of my time and Tom's time figuring it out I just decided to delete and recreate the 1.99 branch from scrach. Since the 1.99 branch didn't contain much of any remaining code, and what was left was condemned anyway there really wasn't much point keeping it as is, and keeping it linked to the stable branch. the new one is independent of 1.3 which is an advantage since ill be able to get rid of the 1.3 repo after 2.0 is complete. yaboot-1.99 now contains: The GPL, a TODO file, and a auto-maintained ChangeLog. Your now able to instantiate lib/libc (prom-libc) with: tla buildcfg libs rather then having to checkout the yaboot-versions--1.99 tree. My mirror on penguinppc is now automatically updated on commit, by the time you see a commit message the penguinppc mirror (and the rsync trees) are already updated. previously i had to run a script manually to sync these and i oftentimes forgot. I also have much more control over how the commit messages are formatted, I am pondering changing the subjects to be more useful, if anyone has any suggestions on this please let me know. http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/arch.shtml has been updated with new tla checkout instructions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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