John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: >> From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> >> What I would like to see is >> solid git integration. Git has become the standard distributed vcs >> and github and google code etc have stopped hosting tarballs and/or >> discouraging it and GNOME is planning to do that as well. If Source >> URL could point directly to a git url with a hash or git tag, we >> would benefit. > > Amen to that! I roll my own rpms daily from locally developed sources > where we have no policy of pushing tarballs. From everything I've ever > been able to figure out, it's necessary for me to make temporary tarballs > just to feed rpmbuild. It always seems such a huge waste of time, > especially for very large packages. RPM would still be making tarballs behind the scenes, even with better integration with git, wouldn't it? -- you still need the ability to make SRPMs. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
