Doug Ledford <dledford <at> redhat.com> writes: > And this is at least partially our own fault. For instance, the fact > that upstream opensm, libibcommon, libibumad, libibmad, librdmacm, > libibcm, and a few others from the OFED package set run autogen.sh is > because someone in Fedora told me to tell them to. I originally told > them not to and I was "corrected". How about simply using a build system which doesn't suck? http://www.cmake.org/ > For example, you can't really clone a subversion repository. SVK might help there, or you could use one of the git-svn bridges out there. I think the bigger problem is that many upstreams either don't use a public SCM at all, have mutable tags (CVS, git and others allow moving a tag to a different revision (CVS even allows doing that per-file, so you can have a mix of old and new revisions in a tag), SVN even allows making changes to a tag which exist nowhere else in the repository) or release tarballs which don't match the SCM for several reasons. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
