Request for review: cogito

[Chris Wright]

* Josh Boyer (jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org) wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 12:16 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > In http://people.redhat.com/~roland/fedora/4/ please find cogito.spec, 
> > as well as a src.rpm and repodata you can use to install the binaries there.
> > 
> > This is one of the GIT-based SCM tools, and apparently one of the most
> > straightforward ways to track Linus's kernel development.
> > 
> > I started with an upstream rpm and cleaned up the spec file.  It's pretty
> > trivial.  I haven't actually put any packages into extras before, so I
> > might have overlooked some conventions.  Please advise.
> 
> Ok, regardless of the unified or broken out git issue, I think this
> package is ready to be included.  Here are a few questions on the spec
> file:
> 
> - Is there a reason the Requires: list files instead of their respective
> packages?
> 
> - coreutils is probably not needed as a requires since everything
> requires it.  No harm in it being there though
> 
> - Is the Obsoletes: git needed?  In my limited knowledge, I'm just
> wondering if this will cause upgrade problems when/if cogito and git are
> split into separate packages in the future.

I actually just removed it a day or two ago.  It was there from the
original cogito packages which were just called git (when cogito was
simply called git-pasky, and it wasn't clear that git would ever be a
standalone package separate from cogito).

thanks,
-chris