Proposal: Better force-tag

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 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.

4 packages out of a sample of 3396 were not matching between .src.rpm 
contents and the matching CVS tag.  Manual inspection however found the 
differences to be inconsequential and the result of incorrect use of 
force-tag.

The "Better force-tag" proposal would have prevented these four problems 
from occurring without restricting legitimate uses of force-tag.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com