Proposal: Better force-tag

[Warren Togami]

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