The Future of Fedora Package Management and the RPM Philosophy

[Bojan Smojver]

Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff <at> ocjtech.us> writes:

> Conflicts happen during the rebasing process when commits D, E, or F
> alter the same code as patches X, Y, or Z.  Yes, then the package
> maintainer will need to understand the code well enough to resolve the
> conflicts manually.

That's how understood things to be as well. The important work will actually be
in making sure those things work again.

Going with an integrated repository instead of pristine source + patches + spec
files is a great overkill, IMHO. However, feel free to kill CVS and replace it
with something better any day you like :-)

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Bojan