Re: Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:30 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > 3 years is a long time for keeping the sources around if we generate
> > them that way. It seems like we're better off in terms of space and in
> > terms of being able to provide sources for the longer run if we can
> > generate srpms on the fly out of cvs.
> > 
> 
> However once you choose to generate srpms on the fly out of cvs, you are 
> also committing to using cvs for the same amount of time. Migrating the 
> cvs component to anything else might show to have a huge tail and might 
> just not work in the sense that the new vcs might not give you srpms 
> with the same checksum, or <insert-favorite-unforeseen-hurdle-here>.
> 

No we aren't committing to using cvs. We're  committing to the tool
which generates the srpms being able to talk to whatever we're using in
the future.

-sv


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