On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:49:31PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > 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? > Can you expand on that? To me it is a much easier way to maintain packages, but I don't have tons of experience doing that and I'm perhaps not the "average package maintainer". Hearing other perspectives would be helpful. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
