Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:47 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Instead I prefer a clone of the master upstream git repo and maintain a
> > branch with patches cherry-picked into it. This is used to auto-generate
> > patches for the Fedora RPM, at the same time updating the patch file list
> > in the RPM spec. The only manual step is adding the changelog entry &
> > bumping release number.
>
> Quick note: this is essentially what debian does.

Ugh. Can we please just agree that source-git (vs. dist-git) is almost
always a bad idea?

> If you want to go this way, I hope we can avoid the need to generate
> a "pristine" tarball and patches. Instead, the contents of the repo should
> be directly used for a build. A tarball can be created, but this tarball
> would always be the tip of the tree containing both the sources and
> the packaging.
>
> Zbyszek
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