On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 01:53:53PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:58:28AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > I've linked my > > https://github.com/projectatomic/rpmdistro-gitoverlay/blob/master/doc/reworking-fedora-releng.md > > plan a few times. > > It's an interesting proposal. I do have a couple of questions > or points of view though: > > How large would this git repo be? Presumably massive because it has > all spec files and all changes. (Not to mention all the times when > people accidentally check in Sources and remove them again, which > would at least bloat .git/ unless someone did some surgery). > > I'd really like something to be driven off the upstream sources rather > than tarballs, especially where upstream is using a public git repo. > > You sort of mention this as your second to last point ("Upstream > source first, and embrace spec file generators") but actually what I'd > like to do is to be able to cherry pick upstream commits directly into > a local branch and have that as the basis for the RPM. The spec file > generator would somehow work off to the side. Another point: Building in build dependency order is critical for OCaml. So whatever magic auto-rebuild system someone might come up needs to be able to do that. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ 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
