Please review: monotone

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jul 19 04:27:39 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:44 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Ok, let's get this show on the road.  There are several of us who have
> > proposed monotone rpms.  I haven't heard anything like a clear approval,
> > and I can't figure out who it is who ought to be stepping forward to do
> > that.  I would be happy to be the maintainer, as probably would each other
> > who has proposed it.  I'm ready to go right now if I can figure out what
> > constitutes proper approval.
> > 
> > monotone 0.21 was just released, and it builds out of the box on FC4 and on
> > rawhide.  Below is my current version of the spec file.  I've added the
> > emacs support to the rpm.  I'll probably keep tweaking it, and may add some
> > other stuff to make it simpler to run a monotone netsync server.  This
> > works just fine as it is.  Someone please tell me to commit it already.
> 
> Review:
> 
> Good:
...

> APPROVED. Commit this thing into CVS already. ;)

Hmm, the package seems to be using a modified, local, static copy of
sqlite3. In the past, this kind of approach has caused serious
vulnerabilities and maintenance problems (c.f. libz).

Ralf





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