Thorsten Leemhuis wrote : > > So the maintainer tweaked their local copy of the spec, built an SRPM > > and used cvs-import.sh to import it, hence losing Tibbs' earlier fix > > that removed the repo file. Looks ignorant/careless rather than > > malicious to me. > > Agreed, that's why I strongly dislike cvs-import.sh for anything else > other than the first import. I'd like to forbid using it for everything > else, but I know people like to use it. Maybe we should enhance it so it > displays the cvs diff with less before the actually commit? Sure, people > still can ignore it, but its still better than nothing. I couldn't agree more! Using cvs-import.sh for anything else than the first import is clearly dangerous, in the sense that it won't warn or otherwise notify the packager when overwriting the repository content with files from a source package which was based on an outdated local copy. I don't think the cvs-import.sh was even meant for anything else than the initial import, and using it after that is probably somewhat abusing it... I would definitely agree with disallowing its usage when some content already exists in the repository. Oh, it also spits out useless output and emails to the cvs lists... Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2835.fc6 Load : 1.22 0.97 0.69 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
