Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:30 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> seth vidal 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.
>>>
>> However once you choose to generate srpms on the fly out of cvs, you are 
>> also committing to using cvs for the same amount of time. Migrating the 
>> cvs component to anything else might show to have a huge tail and might 
>> just not work in the sense that the new vcs might not give you srpms 
>> with the same checksum, or <insert-favorite-unforeseen-hurdle-here>.
>>
> 
> No we aren't committing to using cvs. We're  committing to the tool
> which generates the srpms being able to talk to whatever we're using in
> the future.
> 

I'm sorry I see now I shouldn't have used 'cvs' there but the point was 
that we would need to be able to consistently generate the same file 
over and over again. However while typing this message I read:

Matt Domsch wrote:
 > And really, that's OK.  We don't have to provide exactly the same
 > SRPM.  We have to provide the sources that went into the binary.  If
 > we provide that in a convenient SRPM form, that's fine - that's easy
 > for our existing tools to consume.  But we could post directories full
 > of look-aside cache tarballs and patches if we wanted to.

So it seems the point is that it doesn't matter how or where from srpms 
are being created (although it seems to me a spec file with some (in the 
future, say 3 years from now- obsoleted tags will only be able to 
generate a valid srpm by a fully backwards compatible RPM implementation 
on the host, or we're gonna need to mock it all), and that we save space 
if we do; provided this actually works now and does so for a long, long 
period of time what's holding us back from trying to accomplish this 
-regardless of FP actually distributing under 3b or not?

Kind regards,

Jeroen "archives everything anyway" van Meeuwen
-kanarip