svn or arch

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Fri Dec 17 22:03:14 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:58 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> > One thing that should be clear is that by using a
> > revision control
> > system for RPM packaging, we've already conceptually
> > broken
> > compatibility because the SRPM is no longer the
> > preferred form of
> > modification, to use the GPL terminology.
> 
> 
> I was more concerned about breaking binary
> compatibility. srpms would still be relevant to people
> who dont have a build setup similar to redhat right?

No; you should be able to build packages from the Fedora public CVS
without access to the Fedora build system.  I say "should" in that I
don't know if it works now, but I think it's a bug if it doesn't.






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