Ready for new RPM version?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Feb 28 21:13:01 UTC 2009


Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> That was mine, actually. It's quite a good example. I did a private
> build of Tcl/Tk 8.6, then over the course of a couple of weeks, patched,
> rebuilt and tested every Tcl/Tk-based app in the distro, then pushed
> them to Cooker in a lump. Was this, in a sense, a 'cookerer'? I guess
> so. But it did the job, and I don't think there would have been any
> benefit in pushing the updated Tcl before I was done testing the
> rebuilds.
> 
> There's probably a few issues lurking, but mostly it went OK. Anyhoo.
> Off-topic here...

You can probably do something very similar with a different tag in Koji. 
  That's how Python 2.6 was introduced in rawhide. Fedora maintainers 
should be using this feature in this build system more often. Openssl 
hassles could have been avoided by using it as well for example.

Rahul




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