rebuilding from old cvs tags

Mike Bonnet mikeb at redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 20:45:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mike Bonnet (mikeb at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Actually, do we even know if disabling force tag can be worked around?
> > 
> > Not sure what you're asking here.  There's no reason force-tag is
> > required for any part of the package maintenance workflow.
> 
> I mean, "even if you remove force-tag from the Makefile, you can still
> move the tag yourself". Which I'm fairly sure you can do.

We can make tags really immutable by adding a taginfo script to Fedora
CVS, and "exit 1" when a "mov" operation (tag -F) is requested.  This is
essentially the way we prevent the same tag from being applied on
multiple branches today.





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