Packagers, use: plague-client requeue ...

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 11/11/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> There are still commit messages where a packager increases "Release" in
> the spec file just to rebuild the package after it had failed due to
> temporary buildsys problems. In the spec %changelog there is a comment
> that the buildsys failed. Sometimes this is done for multiple branches to
> keep EVR of all releases in sync.
>
> This is unnecessary. Run:
>
>   plague-client requeue <build-job-id>
>
> instead of doing the "bump, commit, make tag, make build" dance. You can
> requeue failed/killed build jobs until they succeed.
>
> And so far, the buildsys would not even care if you simply asked it
> to build the same tag once more.

Useful information. I wonder if we should have a wiki page about
plague-client useage?