RFC - Patch - koji SCM generalization

[rob myers]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:30 -0400, Mike Bonnet wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:13 -0400, rob myers wrote:
> > attached is a patch that attempts to generalize checking out the
> > components used to build an SRPM.  this patch supports CVS, GIT, and
> > SVN, but only CVS and SVN have been tested.  the idea is to provide the
> > infrastructure for different SCM systems to be configured at run-time so
> > that users can choose their favorite system.
> 
> It would also be nice if rather than assuming the existence of the
> "common/" module and hard-coding the "make srpm" command, there was some
> way to specify what modules were necessary to checkout, and what command
> to run to create a srpm.  This should probably be configurable
> per-repository.  It might make sense to add a new database table to
> store this information in a more flexible way than possible with the
> config files.

the existing design is (currently) sufficient for my needs.  what you
describe is more flexible and is probably a better design, but is it
needed?

> However, this is a great start.  I'm going to review the patch more
> carefully, and I'll see about merging it soon (after possibly removing
> the scmtype config option I mentioned earlier).

thanks for your feedback, and remove cruft as necessary. :)

rob.