[katello-devel] tags and nightly builds

[Mike McCune]

On 04/20/2012 01:42 PM, jesus m. rodriguez wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 04:38 PM, Jordan OMara wrote:
>> 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
>
> +1 to tito --test
>
> jesus
>

agreed, we actually used todo this but when we had only one repo it was 
too unstable.

Now we can have the nightly do --test and the standard human initiated 
builds use only tagged packages.

Mike