[katello-devel] tags and nightly builds

Jordan OMara jomara at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 20:38:20 UTC 2012


On 20/04/12 16:22 -0400, Tom McKay wrote:
>
>With the addition of nightly builds (thanks Lukas!), I am trying to wrap my head around how best to get insight into what was actually built.
>
>What gets built each night is determined by the most recent tag. Is this the best way to determine what is built? Would it be better to automatically generate a tag just prior to the automatic build? (Perhaps the auto tag could be a readable format like YYYY-MM-DD too?)
>
>Are there pros/cons to automatic tagging?
>

Ivan's last suggestion (which i +1000d) was making the nightly builds
essentially built on HEAD instead of the latest tag. The build will
put the hash in the RPM it generates; I don't think a tag is
necessary. Tito does this by default if you do --test
-- 
Jordan O'Mara <jomara at redhat.com>
Red Hat Engineering, Raleigh 
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