Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 
> On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 
>> 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>.
> 
> Or you could just keep the old system around and not use it.
> 

Keeping old systems around doesn't sound very efficient -one goal that I 
guess is attempted to be achieved by the "keeping-only-so-many-copies of 
the sources re-generating the SRPM on demand" idea.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip