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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