Merge Status - Building available

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 22:33 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> A couple of questions:
> 
> Jesse Keating wrote, at 05/04/2007 03:15 AM +9:00:
> 
> > Koji will take your build and run with it, you'll see some output on the CLI.  
> > Your build, if successful, will be tagged with 'dist-fc7'.  This is not 
> > enough to get it into rawhide, as F7 is in continual slush freeze.  If you 
> > need your build to get into rawhide and thus Fedora 7, you need to follow the 
> > policy http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy 
> > here.
> 
> Well,
> A. Does this mean that many packages which were approved and were
>    rebuilt after koji began to work (then marked as 'dist-fc7')
>    will not be pushed into Fedora 7,
>    while they will be pushed into Fedora _Extras_ 6/5 as before (usually
>    within two days)? (i.e. will this cause the situation that
>    newer packages will appear on FE-5/6, but not on Fedora 7)?

Unless you submit a request to rel-eng, yes.  You need to have those
packages tagged as f7-final if you want them in the release.

> 
> B. There are still many packages which are still waiting for review and
>    some of them require rpms marked as dist-fc7 as BuildRequires.
>    If the situation A is true, how can I check if a package can be
>    rebuilt with mock correctly which I want to review and which
>    requires dist-fc7 rpms (which are not pushed into public yet)?
> 
>    Before koji began to work, mock used to pull such BuildRequires rpms
>    from
>    http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/plague-results/fedora-development-extras/ ,
>    which included repodata (marked as "local" repository) and mock could use
>    such rpms "which were just rebuilt but not formally pushed into public" as
>    BuildRequires.
> 
>    For koji, are there any repodata of dist-fc7 which contains "not formally
>    pushed rpms" which can be used for mock build needed for package review
>    as before? (i.e. I want to install "just rebuilt rpms" from repository
>    like "local" repository as quickly as possible because I _frequently_
>    meet the situation in which such "new" rpms are needed for review").

This is a good question that I don't know the answer to.  Jesse, Dennis?

josh