Basic questions
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp at redhat.com
Sun Mar 20 18:38:22 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 01:50 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> >>
> >> Tags?
> >> It looks like there is no tagging of built versions in CVS. If
> >> you wanted to reproduce the 0:0.0-2.20041231 build of fontforge,
> >> how would you do it? The only tags I see in CVS
> >> are those from the import script.
> >>
> >> (In the internal Red Hat package CVS, the package maintainer tags,
> >> then the build system pulls off the tag)
> >
> >
> > Eek! I had assumed (wrongly) that Seth was either pulling tags, or
> > tagging stuff himself. We should immediately change the procedure so
> > that Seth only pulls tags, so this forces all package maintainers to
> > explicitly tag what they want built and request that exact N-V-R.
>
> Eek! I just realized that Extras CVS Makefile seems to be completely
> missing the "make tag" target. No wonder nothing is getting tagged.
I asked people about that deficiency quite a while ago on various lists
as well as directly, but no one cared enough to answer that. I have been
tagging manually since due to having it learnt the hard way that you
really, really want these tags in place in the future.
Nils
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