Re: My first (ab)use of the CVS tags

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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:38 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 00:29 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
>
> > I manually tagged the FC-3 branch where the patch was now included as
> > *-1_1_fc3 (where it previously was *-1_fc3) without actually changing the
> > release nor anything else in the spec file, and asked plague to rebuild
> > that new branch.
> ...
> 
> IMHO, you should have done instead 'TAG_OPTS=-F make tag' of course IF
> and ONLY IF the build failed. The tag in CVS should indicate that a the
> rpm with the same NVR as in the TAG was created from this exact CVS
> contents. 
> 
> So moving the tag if no such rpm was created yet should be perfectly
> correct. On the other hand what you have done is really confusing
> because the *-1_fc3 tag doesn't reflect the state as of -1.fc3 rpm (this
> is a big problem) and for the *-1_1_fc3 tag doesn't exist a -1.1.fc3 rpm
> (this is not a problem).

Just appending something, eg. ".1", to the release tag in the affected
branch and tagging and building as usual would have worked, too.


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