On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:06:05AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > I've been excited for a while¹ about letting packagers (along with > > other test contributors) add tests to a git tree analogous to dist-git. > > "test-git", I guess. I imagine 'fedpkg clone' being changed to check > This in the plans, and yes, it was supposed to be a small step > forward in this direction :) Nice. :) > > Another thing to consider — if you look at a buildSRPMFromSCM task, > > there are parameters like Build Tag and SCM URL — and the the git url > > should² include commit hash, even. I was _already_ wondering if we > > could find some way to include this in the RPM header, along with the > > koji task ID. This would probably be less disruptive than my > > ditch-the-dist-tag suggestion. :) > Placing information like these directly into RPM headers would be > awesome. Is it technically possible? Does anyone know if there are > any drawbacks to this approach (i.e. increased metadata size)? Would > it be hard to implement? I'm sure it's technically possible. It would increase metadata size, but it doesn't seem like by a lot, and it seems like valuable metadata to me making it worth it. I don't know how hard it'd be, though. (I think the build system side would be easy, and adding support to RPM _seems_ easy, but we'd have to ask the actual RPM maintainers.) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
