make force-tag gone

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:47 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Really it comes down to a premature desire to clean up the way that Koji
> > builds things.  For lack of something easier, koji builds from a CVS tag
> > based on the N-V-R of a package build.  For lack of knowledge of
> > something easier, the thought is that tag is the only thing we can use
> > to get back to the actual source used for a build.  It's not.  I've been
> > told of at least one way to use something different, the CVS/Entries
> > file.  Yeah, it might take a little work to cook up an app to go from
> > that to the source, but that's fine, that's work the person who wants
> > this has to do.
> > 
> This specific implementation would be a bad thing.  Instead of having a
> nice, SCM abstract method of communicating to koji what to build from
> (the tag) you'd be resorting to CVS specific knowledge.

Okay, so scm.checkout grows another outparam that return the
reproducability information.  You'd get a tag from git, Entries from
CVS, revision number from SVN...

This isn't materially more work.

- ajax
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