make force-tag gone

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Yes.  It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F.
>
> Yet another abuse of power by FESCo. Why can't FESCo listen to the many
> developers who objected to the removal here, including developers like Dave
> Jones and Rex Dieter who are experienced Fedora packagers and do much of the
> actual packaging work in Fedora (Dave Jones is the primary maintainer of the
> kernel, Rex Dieter is #4 in number of builds per packager)? Why can't the
> decision be left to the people who are actually affected by the change, i.e.
> the packagers? FESCo is supposed to represent the interests of the packagers
> (that's what they're elected for), not their own, too bad they actually do the
> latter.

Basically because the only argument for keeping "make force-tag"
wasn't a technical one.  There's a need to ensure that a tag points to
the exact source that was used to build a package.  Disallowing
force-tag is the easiest way to do that.  Creating some hack that
checks with koji to see if there's a successful build associated with
a tag before allowing a force-tag operation to success sounds like a
recipe for really slow and expensive CVS operations.

>> The decision was not unanimous.
>
> Nice to see there were at least some sane people left...

Agreed :)

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Jeff Ollie

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