On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:20:12AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >On 08/01/2009 01:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 00:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> >>> I don't think anybody is going to argue that extracting source from srpm >>> or pulling tarball + patches from our package cvs is ideal. So I don't >>> see why we should continue have a lame exception. >> >> Yeah, it's not idea. They should just pull it from our upstream source >> repo by the tag we apply when we make the release we package. Then >> they're much better setup to provide patches back to us in a preferred >> manner. >> >> Lets start moving beyond the tarball crap. > >That's kind of side tracking though. Point is that SRPM as upstream >source is simply a stupid thing. We would complain loudly or atleast >whine about it if Novell or Mandriva or Debian did that. Wouldn't we? > >Why should we have an exception anymore? I can't think of a single >reason why we should. Because doing this: Source0: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/anaconda/anaconda-11.5.0.59.tar.bz2/0b0b7b30f1ff03bad05bda3d052b73a8/anaconda-11.5.0.59.tar.bz2 is really no better. All you are doing is forcing people to list a URL. Also, if an upstream project doesn't want to host all that and wants to use the SRPM as the source, who is Fedora to tell them they can't? josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
