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

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:39:08AM -0400, Mike Bonnet wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 15:00 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:51:00AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > The problem was that make tag has been created before the branch, but
> > the make build afterwards. It is also not possible to rerun make tag.
> 
> The problem here is actually that the tag created on devel/ didn't
> include a "branch" file (that file doesn't get created until the
> branch-creation scripts are run).  In the absence of a "branch" file,
> Makefile.common assumes you're on devel/ and expands the %dist tag to
> the values defined for devel in common/branches (currently .fc8).
> 
> Basically, tagging before the branch point and building after it is not
> supported.  After the branch point, any builds need to bump the revision
> and run "make tag" before they can build.

OK, we got that far, but how will you support a new arch in the tree?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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