Proposal: Better force-tag

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Sep 14 14:16:03 UTC 2008


drago01 wrote:
> Was away for one week and now make force-tag no longer works....
> Why do we need to bump the release and changelog for every small
> change? ex: typo?
> This makes the changelog useless to read and fills the users
> rpmdb/disk with crap entries "forgot to add a patch"; "fix a typo",
> etc.
> 
> +1 for adding it back.
> 
> Just removing stuff does not solve problems you have to implement a
> better alternative first (and not rely on a worse one).
> 

Since nothing stops the user from using TAG_OPTS=-F, it is ineffective 
of us to remove force-tag.  How about an improved force-tag instead?

Make force-tag use koji to check if a build for that N-V-R is already 
complete.  If it is complete, then refuse to tag again with the same N-V-R.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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