make force-tag gone

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Sep 9 22:31:35 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 09 September 2008 05:22:28 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot <at> laposte.net> writes:
> > rawhide kernel is at release 317 right now. A large portion of those 317
> > were mis-builds, oopsing kernels and other various fails (including
> > stupid typos).
> >
> > Anyone dares saying our kernel people are abysmal packagers?
>
> Do you want all packages to carry this hack?
> %define fedora_cvs_origin 623
> %define fedora_build %(R="$Revision: 1.941 $"; R="${R%% \$}"; R="${R##:
> 1.}"; expr $R - %{fedora_cvs_origin})
> ...
> %if 0%{?released_kernel}
> %define pkg_release %{fedora_build}%{?buildid}%{?dist}
> %else
> ...
> %define pkg_release 0.%{fedora_build}%{?rctag}%{?gittag}%{?buildid}%{?dist}
> %endif
> ...
> Release: %{pkg_release}
>
> Because that's what the kernel uses and why they don't need force-tag. And
> even that doesn't completely eliminate the need for force-tag, because the
> mistake could be somewhere other than the specfile, e.g. a patch you forgot
> to cvs add.

which is why I want make tag to check that all patches and sources are 
commited to cvs before doing the tag.

Dennis
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