[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Fixing cross-compilation, some script work, revised

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 03:12:15AM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-G??recki wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 05:48:37PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > The host on which I do development and has the appropriate repositories
> > doesn't handle this e-mail address.  As such `git send-email` is
> > *completely* incompatible with this setup.
> 
> I'm fairly sure your setup isn't that special to be incompatible with
> `git send-email`. For example you can setup `git send-email` to use
> arbitrary SMTP server, see here:
> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches#Setting_up_git_send-email
> 

Which assumes one's git repositories are located directly on the Internet
(one of the most secure places, really!) and nothing filtering port 25...

> > I find your level of difficulty rather surprising.  The messages all have
> > [PATCH XX/YY] in their subject lines.  They apply fine if applied in the
> 
> No, they don't. Because they are base64-encoded. Patch needs to be in
> plain format, not plain format wrapped in base64.

Ah ha.  That sounds like the listserv is encoding things base64, which
could cause problems.


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