Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide

[Jeff Spaleta]

2008/7/11 Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> The repo itself acts as the look aside cache.  In order for that to
> work, tags must be immutable and code can not be removed.  However, this
> is no different than us not being able to rm tarballs from the cache
> that we have shipped, nor how we are not allowed to unpack a tarball,
> change the contents and then repack it back up and put it back on the
> cache under the same name.  Exact same policies, different
> implementations.

Okay.. the important bit I was missing was making sure 'we' keep a
local clone of the source for everything we are building and packaging
and we weren't just pulling dynamically from upstream at build time.

-jef