Mass Branching for F-8 (round 2)

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:51:09 +0100
Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:

> Well the pkgdb part of this seems to have gone wrong for *all* the
> lvm-team-owned projects, unfortunately.
> 
> Specifically, the Fedora 7 permissions were not copied across to the
> new Fedora 8 correctly:
> 
>   lvm2 and device-mapper: mostly cloned OK, but 2 users were not
> granted "commit" access for F8, although they have it for the other
> collections. When I try to grant this manually, I get the error
> "<number> is not in a group that is allowed to hold the commit acl".
> Yet of course they hold the commit acl elsewhere.
> 
>   dmraid and device-mapper-multipath: only *one* user was given
> access to F8 (watchcommits and commit).  Nobody has "approveacls" so
> we cannot even attempt to fix this ourselves.
>  
> What quality assurance was performed on this data edit?  Why didn't
> the scripts performing the change flag up any errors?  And what about
> checking the results of a major data edit like this for
> inconsistencies afterwards: Were any other packages affected
> similarly?


The script showed the errors for your packages and I passed those on to
Toshio for hand fixing.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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