On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:22:13AM -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. And why is upstream development being done from a Fedora SCM checkout? josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
