[katello-devel] tags and nightly builds

[jesus m. rodriguez]

On 04/20/2012 04:38 PM, Jordan OMara wrote:
> On 20/04/12 16:22 -0400, Tom McKay wrote:
>>
>> With the addition of nightly builds (thanks Lukas!), I am trying to wrap my head around how best to get insight into what was actually built.
>>
>> What gets built each night is determined by the most recent tag. Is this the best way to determine what is built? Would it be better to automatically generate a tag just prior to the automatic build? (Perhaps the auto tag could be a readable format like YYYY-MM-DD too?)
>>
>> Are there pros/cons to automatic tagging?
>>
>
> Ivan's last suggestion (which i +1000d) was making the nightly builds
> essentially built on HEAD instead of the latest tag. The build will
> put the hash in the RPM it generates; I don't think a tag is
> necessary. Tito does this by default if you do --test

+1 to tito --test

jesus

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