Proposal: Better force-tag
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Sep 14 18:21:21 UTC 2008
Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2008 12:37:59 Warren Togami wrote:
>> The goal of preventing force-tag is to better guarantee that .src.rpm
>> comtents match tags.
>
> Is this really a problem in practice? I honestly do not care what is or has
> been in cvs between actual releases. The srpm has all the files that are part
> of a build. I never use cvs to research a problem.
It is useful and important to keep the CVS matching .src.rpm's. One of
many checks after the intrusion that we did was comparing the CVS tags
to .src.rpm contents.
>
>
>> We can achieve this by having force-tag fail if the buildsystem says that
>> E:N-V-R was either already built or is currently building.
>
> Or by embedding a sources file in the srpm that cross references all cvs
> versions of all files used in the build attempt. Doing it this way wouldn't
> have required disrupting the workflow.
The "Better force-tag" proposal doesn't disrupt your workflow either,
unless you are doing something clearly wrong.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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