On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:32:01PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:27:20PM +0200, Alek Paunov wrote: > > On 19.11.2013 16:20, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:29:06PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >>On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:39:50PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > >>>We have to learn fedpkg to do all the magic ;-) Something like > > >>> > > >>>add remote git tree with exploded tree: > > >>> > > >>> fedpkg exploded-tree add ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/foo.git > > >> > > >>This is all great, but the problem is that co-maintainers and > > >>provenpackagers need to be (automatically if possible) added to the > > >>fedorahosted tree. Otherwise there's a big extra step for them if > > >>they want to follow the package owner's preferred patching system. > > > > > >Ideally the GIT SCM request added to bugzilla when reviews are > > >approved would have a "Upstream GIT URL" option and would setup > > >a clone of this, and create branches for the fedora releases, > > >and apply the same permissioning model from dist-git branches > > >of the same names. > > > > > > > What about intermediate step: optional "fNN-upstream" branch in > > addition to fNN, containing relevant upstream revision as git > > submodule (preferably referencing fedorahosted mirror, but initially > > also allowing "external" clones)? > > I think it would be better to keep the upstream repo separate for > sake of size. People who just want to checkout the latest RPM > branches don't want to have to pull down 100's of MB, potentially > GB, worth of GIT repo, when current Fedora GIT repos are a mere > few MB. Only maintainers actively updating patches need that > burden. > It probably makes sense to have a "lookaside git" that's similar to the "lookaside cache". One note though, I think that in the past one of the discussion points we've foundered on is whether we want to be mirroring upstream's git repo or (approximately) upstream's releases. I think that's probably where we'd need to start discussion. -Toshio
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