Checking in packages for extras

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:36 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > > > Hey folks,
> > > >  when you check in a package/changes that you're going to 
> > > > request to 
> > > > be built, please run 'make tag' in the directory you're 
> > > > checking in.
> > > 
> > > The easiest way to do that is to write the build: line in 
> > > Makefile.common as
> > > "build: tag", so it will tag it automatically. :-)
> > 
> > This will fail if it is tagged already (many of us Red 
> > Hatters will run make tag on one machine and make build on 
> > another courtesy of our internal build system).
> 
> Yes, I encountered this problem allready, but that's the reason, why I
> 'move' the cvs tag. So my cvs tag line reads as:
> 
> cvs tag -F $(TAG_OPTS) -c $(TAG)
> 
> (As you can see I added -F).

I see, but this is not what we want, trust me on that one ;-).
Force-tagging should only be done if really necessary, not per default.

> That works fine here. I'm sure, that you, Red Hatters, do work this way and
> I also work this way very often, but for the most people out there - I guess
> - they run tag and build on the same machine!?
> 
> The reason why I always tag it before building, is that I cannot forget it
> then. :-)

Well our build system checks for the presence of the tag before
building, maybe someone can patch Seth accordingly ;-).

Nils
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