ESR "fedora-submit"

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Dec 25 02:10:27 UTC 2006


Michael Schwendt <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org>:
> > > Update the spec file and the patch files, update the source
> > > look-aside, make tag, make build, not much to it really.
> > 
> > What's a "source look-aside" in this context?
> 
> Large binary files (like tarballs) are not stored in CVS, but on a
> separate HTTP-based "look-aside cache server". It's where the Makefiles in
> CVS upload/download them to/from. The files' names and checksums are
> stored in CVS (in a file with the name "sources") together with the
> package spec file, patch files, ...

Thanks.  This sounds like the kind of detail I need to know to write
my script.
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