A few questions on CVS content

Christian Iseli Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Tue Jun 26 23:13:17 UTC 2007


On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:33:25 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) said: 
> > > Bonus question: what should we do in the devel directory of OLPC-only
> > > packages ?  Put some kind of non-fedora.package file, similarly to the
> > > dead.package file, to avoid branching when new fedora releases are
> > > created ?  
> > 
> > Good question. Not sure what the answer is, so I guess I lose the bonus
> > round. ;)   
> 
> Well, it depends on how we do the branch. If we only branch packages
> that exist in the development/release tree at the time, we don't worry
> about this problem. (It's what was done for F7.)

That might work, but still leaves the (admittedly a bit nitpicky)
problem for me of: how do I know a package is OLPC only in my checking
script ?  It's a sort of chicken-egg problem: if I notice that the
package has not been built for devel, how do I know it is intentional ?

					C




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