EPEL-6 Plan of attack

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 20:21 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 08:08 +0000, Mark Chappell wrote:
>> >> On 27 March 2010 08:07, Mark Chappell <tremble at tremble.org.uk> wrote:
>> >> > Does git allow for partial checkouts yet?
>> >>
>> >> Although I assume it'd be possible to have a separate repository for
>> >> each package...
>> >>
>> >
>> > The current dist-git work in progress uses a single repo per package.
>> > Each package will have branches within it for each Fedora release.
>> >
>>
>> Do you need a smaller set of packages that you could have developers
>> test against? Would that help or hinder?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Wouldn't really help at this point.  For EPEL to use dist-git, koji
> would have to grow the ability to build from git, and use fedpkg to do
> some of the work.  Our repo admins would have to learn about git to make
> the EPEL branches, and then getting master merged back in once we do the
> rest of the branches would be awkward.  I'd rather move whole hog when
> we are ready to move anything.

Ok no problem. If sometime in the future a test set needs to be done,
let us know.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

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