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

[Les Mikesell]

Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
>>> It's when dealing with
>>> this sort of thing that the whole exploded source method becomes *far*
>>> more important in terms of developer productivity.  Right now, both the
>>> rhel4 and rhel5 kernel maintainers actually use exploded source because
>>> CVS was untenable.  But, because the build system doesn't support
>>> exploded source, they have some convoluted scripts that spit out a
>>> tarball and patches from their git repo and check those into CVS solely
>>> for the purpose of building.
>> Is it feasible to do that in general to make current-style src rpms 
>> available until you can replace them completely with something better 
>> for both the build system and public source redistribution?
> 
> Oh, I'm sure it could be done, yeah.  It's very hackish though.

Backwards compatibility to simplify user's lives is sometimes worth a 
hack.   Isn't that what RHEL is all about - and for good reasons?

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   Les Mikesell
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