Re: ESR "fedora-submit"

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Michael Schwendt <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:56:16 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> > In a nutshell, I won't be a Fedora package maintainer if it means I have
> > to do special hand-work every time I ship a release.  The more general
> > problem is that the Fedora submission system doesn't scale (or at least,
> > appears to me not to scale) for maintainers with *lots* of projects.
> 
> One request, please, get up-to-date on how packages are submitted and
> built _nowadays_ instead of beating dead procedures.

I will do so.  I have promised to review the Wiki guidelines.

> There is a cvs-import.sh script which can import entire src.rpms to
> Fedora Extras CVS (its primary use is in the initial import). It takes
> care of adding/removing and committing files. It is used by several
> packagers, who prefer using it over working in CVS themselves, for
> *all* their updates. What it doesn't automate, however, is all the
> stuff you need to do prior to creating your source rpms.

I will look into this.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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