Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:38:43AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:30:39 -0500
> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > But if we have the source tarball and spec file + patches in cvs -
> > which we do right now, anyway, why not generate them on demand and
> > not even need to host the srpms until they're desired?
> > 
> > We save space even in the short run.
> 
> Because that will overtime potentially generate something that is
> different than the original srpm

And really, that's OK.  We don't have to provide exactly the same
SRPM.  We have to provide the sources that went into the binary.  If
we provide that in a convenient SRPM form, that's fine - that's easy
for our existing tools to consume.  But we could post directories full
of look-aside cache tarballs and patches if we wanted to.

-Matt