[pungi] flavor? and getsources

[Essien Ita Essien]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 07:38, Essien Ita Essien wrote:
>   
>> What's the idea behind the 'flavor' configuration keyword in pungi
>> (using lattest tip). On inspecition, It seems to be appended to the
>> version number and used to create directory paths. I guess I just want
>> to know the "why" behind it :), or more like, the domain equivalence...
>> basically... what the heck is a flavor :)
>>     
>
> With Fedora 7, we're introducing a targetted spin idea, that is a compose of 
> the packages for a particular target, like Desktop.  In order to signify what 
> target a given spin is for, I introduced the flavor argument, which as you 
> noted, will append the flavor to the path.  This way you can have the same 
> topdir but with many different flavors.  It is purely optional though, if no 
> flavor is specified, it will not be used.
>   
ahh... i c. thanks for the explanation... makes perfect sense.

btw, if flavor is not specified, a lot of portions break, i'll 
investigate better and send
a patch.
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