Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Jul 14 17:06:11 UTC 2008
Doug Ledford <dledford <at> redhat.com> writes:
> And this is at least partially our own fault. For instance, the fact
> that upstream opensm, libibcommon, libibumad, libibmad, librdmacm,
> libibcm, and a few others from the OFED package set run autogen.sh is
> because someone in Fedora told me to tell them to. I originally told
> them not to and I was "corrected".
How about simply using a build system which doesn't suck?
http://www.cmake.org/
> For example, you can't really clone a subversion repository.
SVK might help there, or you could use one of the git-svn bridges out there.
I think the bigger problem is that many upstreams either don't use a public SCM
at all, have mutable tags (CVS, git and others allow moving a tag to a
different revision (CVS even allows doing that per-file, so you can have a mix
of old and new revisions in a tag), SVN even allows making changes to a tag
which exist nowhere else in the repository) or release tarballs which don't
match the SCM for several reasons.
Kevin Kofler
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