Security issue: Can't build mediawiki - F7 thinks it's F8

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Monday 06 August 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:18:36 +0200
>
> Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:
> > Typo?
>
> Not exactly.  Expression mismatch.  The tag was /applied/ on the devel/
> branch, so when cvs is asked for that tag, it tries to pull it from
> devel/ and bad things happen.
>
> > > in devel, koji gets a little confused when making the srpm for you.
> > > You'll most likely need to bump/tag on F-7 then you can build and it
> > > will get the proper .fc7 tag to it.
> >
> > Hm, this sounds more like a bug that should be fixed in koji. Wouldn't
> > that apply to any kind of branching CVS, e.g. koji inherits bad tags
> > to branches? This bug only surfaces if the tagsing and building is
> > intermitted by the branch, but consider adding new archs to Fedora, it
> > will hit all packages (as the build for the new arch will be after the
> > branching, unless new archs are limited to devel).
>
> I'm not entirely sure how this is going to be handled.  It probably
> does need looking into, something deep in the cvs "branching" scripts
> we use.  My cvs-fu isn't nearly that strong :(

probably need to call make tag after creating the branch. 

Dennis