Re: make force-tag gone

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 18:03 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 
> There's no logic here. You're not forcing people to tag after every CVS 
> check-in, as far as I know. If a release 'n' fails to build (for 
> example, because you forgot to check-in a patch), it makes zero sense to 
> bump to n+1, because release 'n' never *existed* in the first place, 
> since it was never built. That has zero impact over auditing. Spec file 
> auditing is done through CVS.

The audit part is something of a red herring.  The GPL compliance part
is what is bothersome.  If we want to save archive space by relying on
re-generating srpms of shipped binaries on demand, we need to ensure
that CVS tags don't change over time.  For better or worse, we build
from CVS tags, so to get the source that matched the build, we have to
checkout via CVS tags.  If those tags can change over time, the trust
level is gone.  That's why there is a push to make the tags immutable,
or at least the successfully built tags immutable.

Personally I just want to move off of CVS and off of building from tags,
and instead build from something inherently immutable, like the shasum
of the repo at a given time.

MikeB said that he'd look into some CVS/make changes that would allow
checking koji for an on going or successful build of a tag/n-v-r before
allowing a force-tag.  This would allow folks to force-tag before having
a successful build, but would not allow you to force the tag after a
successful build, or while a build is still going with that n-v-r.

I think this approach, while it may slow down force-tags and prevent
force-tags during any koji outage, will give us the best of both worlds.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux