On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:22 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:16 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > On Thu October 9 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Only if we allow source repo tags to be a suitable source distribution > > > method. Since fedorahosted still doesn't have an easy to use way of > > > distributing tarballs, and getting the code via a scm checkout is quite > > > easy, it should suffice. > > > > If this is the only obstacle to get this done, I will write a patch for > > Makefile.common that displays the URL for every file in sources to fetch it > > from the lookaside cache. Then this URL can be provided as source tarball on > > a fedorahosted wiki page. > > Why must we insist on tarballs? Unless the tarball includes scm > metadata in it, it's practically useless for upstream patch development. I've been contributing to various upstreams based on patches to tarballs for a long time. It's hardly "practically useless". Sure, working with an SCM is better (and working with one of the newer ones is even more so), but tarballs + patches are still quite doable Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
