Merge Status - Building available
Mamoru Tasaka
mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon May 7 11:12:53 UTC 2007
Ville Skyttä wrote, at 05/06/2007 05:37 AM +9:00:
> On Friday 04 May 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 22:33 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Hm. So let's say I update and build an ex-Extras package in the devel branch.
> I don't contact rel-eng so it won't get into Rawhide nor F7 per the above.
> The question is where _will_ it end up in this scenario?
>
>>> 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.
>
> What if I have some packages meeting the A) status above, and I don't care
> that deeply whether they're in the F7 release but sure do want them in F7
> repositories as soon as possible after the release; do I need to do
> something?
Also I want to know about this.
Mamoru
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