On Saturday 18 December 2004 00:53, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:55 +0100, Dries Verachtert wrote: > > This makes it possible to check automatically which spec files are > > already built for a certain distro/arch and which are not because i can > > compare the svncmtid of the binary rpms with the current version of a > > spec file in the subversion repository. > > I think you're abusing the revision control system as a generic > database; better to use a real SQL database for this. Then you can add > additional metadata such as which package versions pass test suites, are > released for which distributions, etc. I'm using a PostgreSQL database to store all this information and also a lot of meta information about each rpm. My scripts only add the svn commit revision before a spec file is used for a rebuild. That modified spec file which contains the svn commit revision is not checked in again. It's only used for the rebuild. kind regards, Dries Verachtert
