On 16.11.2007 22:15, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:07 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> With grep, sed, cvs diff and some small adjustments by hand this change >> could also be done quickly in CVS for all effected packages. I could >> start now and will likely finished the task for all packages in devel >> within less then 30 minutes. But nobody does that, as modifying packages >> that are owned by other people is frowned upon in Fedora land. >> Such changes therefor often take years to get realized in practice. Is >> that what we want? > No; automating these kinds of things is exactly where Fedora should be > going. Well, I had no script (besides the bumpspecfile one found at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rebuild-scripts/bumpspecfile.py?root=fedora&view=markup ) and thus did most of it manually, as writing a script for this sort of one-time change is likely not worth the trouble. Results from my work: http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/MISC.fdr/proper-fc-cache-calls.diff @FESCo: so what do do with this? Commit and don't build? The package owners should see the commit diff and spot errors if I did any. > I think we very much want a model based on peer review, collective > ownership and automation, not personal fiefdoms and manual integer > increments in text files. +1, ecpecially to "collective ownership and automation" > [...] CU knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
