Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 16:55:07 UTC 2008
Doug Ledford wrote:
> It's when dealing with
> this sort of thing that the whole exploded source method becomes *far*
> more important in terms of developer productivity. Right now, both the
> rhel4 and rhel5 kernel maintainers actually use exploded source because
> CVS was untenable. But, because the build system doesn't support
> exploded source, they have some convoluted scripts that spit out a
> tarball and patches from their git repo and check those into CVS solely
> for the purpose of building.
Is it feasible to do that in general to make current-style src rpms
available until you can replace them completely with something better
for both the build system and public source redistribution?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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