Package Updating Doc Available

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Jun 27 12:49:23 UTC 2007



On 27.06.2007 14:26, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 08:28:12 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> BTW: when jeremy in the doc mentioned to build stuff from both the devel
>> and the F-7 branch locally he afaics meant to do that when the spec
>> files in both branches differ. Otherwise there really is no point in
>> rebuilding them locally without mock or different installs afaics.
> 
> Eh, not really.

Se ebelow :-)

>  While the spec file may not differ, the buildroot contents 
> will, 

Sure.

> so it is somewhat important that you at least expect the build will 
> succeed with the different tool sets.

Sure.

>  Building locally (if you can) before 
> chucking it at the buildserver will reduce load on the buildserver for all.

Sure.

But we did not understand each other ;-) If you just follow the steps in
the wiki exactly (e.g. on one system without rebooting, chroots or mock)
it makes no difference if the spec files in the different branches are
identical.

CU
thl




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