CVS tag help needed

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 06:09 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:35:34 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > 
> > > > be corrected with plain "cvs" and proper options. But be careful,
> > > > please.
> > > 
> > > I haven't tried it yet but AFAICT "make tag TAG_OPTS=-F" does the equivalent
> > > of "make force-tag" for core cvs.
> > > 
> > > I still think force-tag would be useful for Extras too though... comments?
> > 
> > Convenient access to dangerous options bears an unknown risk, IMO.
> 
> make force-tag is really useful, e.g. when:
> 1) you forgot to say make FILES=new-tarball new-source
>    and make build fails because it can't find the tarball.
>    Then you just run make ... new-source; cvs ci; make force-tag
>    and make build again
> 2) if make build fails for some other reason, e.g. some patch
>    contains a fatal bug that causes compilation failure.
>    There is no point to bump %{release} as rpm with that %{release}
>    hasn't ever been built.

you don't need to increment release and bump anymore. The new buildsys
will rebuild things it already built.

however, everyone should be doing 'make mock' before they submit their
builds, right? :)

-sv