Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide

[Doug Ledford]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:40 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > > It doesn't have to be, but it might be nice.  
> > 
> > Hmm, but "it might be nice" isn't a sufficient reason for me to enforce
> > unchangeable tags -- "it has built successfully" would be, though. Or
> > rather, let the successful build trigger the tagging of the built
> > revision.
> 
> That's why you have something other than the human apply the immutable
> tag.
> 
> The buildsystem would build from the <sha> sum that wouldn't ever
> change.  Once a build is actually successful, the n-v-r of that build is
> immutable tagged to the matching <sha> sum by some bot running in the
> build infrastructure.

I agree 100%.

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