Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 21 14:30:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:25 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:15:30 -0500
> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > 3 years is a long time for keeping the sources around if we generate
> > them that way. It seems like we're better off in terms of space and in
> > terms of being able to provide sources for the longer run if we can
> > generate srpms on the fly out of cvs.
> 
> 3 years only comes into play if you use 3b/c.  If you use 3a, you only
> have to keep the source as long as you keep the binary.  In the case of
> respins, you only have to keep the sources associated with the respin
> for as long as that respin binary is hosted.  This is the real concern,
> the updates sources used in respins.
> 

But if we have the source tarball and spec file + patches in cvs - which
we do right now, anyway, why not generate them on demand and not even
need to host the srpms until they're desired?

We save space even in the short run.

-sv





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