On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:07 AM Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/13/20 2:44 PM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
> > Le 2020-01-13 12:52, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> >
> >> I have trouble matching this claim to my experience working on
> >> redhat-rpm-config. Why is it painful to use Git as it was designed?
> >
> > Because redhat-rpm-config is not "using Git as it was designed". It’s
> > using git as a centralized flat and linear SCM (à la SVN/CVS) without
> > putting the project info in the repository but in a static spec mapping.
> >
> > In sane macro project that use separate sources you can do things like
> > "install rpm/macros.d/* to %{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/" (because if you
> > accepted a PR that puts things in rpm/macros.d and tagged the result you
> > *want* this result deployed in %{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/, right?). In
> > redhat-rpm-config that does not work. Every single file is a different
> > source with custom spec handling.
> >
> > Apart from being inefficient this custom handling badly collides
> > whenever two PRs try to add new files. With a real detached source
> > project, with a real tree managed by git, all the eventual tree
> > collisions would be managed by git. With everything-is-a-separate-source
> > files collide (at the source number level) even when they have different
> > filenames, and will be deployed in different places.
>
> Well yes, nothing is perfect. These are such minor issues compared to
> the patches-on-patches-of-patches horror that was before that it fails
> to register on my annoyance scale at all, it's nothing but a nice
> tradeoff for being able to use git as deity meant it for this content.
>
It's also important to note that splitting is only useful if there are
multiple disparate downstreams. In this case, there isn't. Only Fedora
(and its downstream RHEL) use redhat-rpm-config. Contrast that to
Mageia's rpm-setup and OpenMandriva's rpm-openmandriva-setup, which
are managed this way *because* it is the upstream for multiple
disparate distributions (rpm-setup is the upstream for Mageia and
PCLinuxOS, while rpm-omv-setup is the upstream for OpenMandriva and
ROSA).
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