gtkmm24 updates to F13 (was Re: What are the rules for which package we build against in F-13)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:51:42AM +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> On 04/07/2010 09:35 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:37:25 +0200, Denis wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/07/2010 08:30 AM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> >>> Denis Leroy wrote, at 04/07/2010 03:20 PM +9:00:
> >>>> On 03/08/2010 04:37 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >>>>> The buildroots are populated from packages in the:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dist-f13
> >>>>> dist-f13-override
> >>>>> dist-f12-updates
> >>>>>
> >>>>> tags.  If a package isn't in one of those tags, it's not going to be in the
> >>>>> buildroot.  If you need to build against a newer version of a package, then you
> >>>>> need to file a ticket on the rel-eng trac instance asking for a buildroot
> >>>>> override (which will get it tagged into dist-f13-override).
> >>>>
> >>>> Sorry to revive this old thread, but does this imply that one cannot use
> >>>> 'make chain-build' for F-13 updates then ?
> >>>
> >>> Yes.
> >>
> >> Thanks Mamoru-san,
> >>
> >> Well, this is not the most motivating news.
> >
> > How easy is it for releng to create a custom buildroot/tag, which
> > could be used instead of working with an override tag?
> 
> Yikes, I'm pretty stumped. How can we deal with such a burdensome 
> process for something that is not even released yet ? Unfortunately I do 
> not have the spare time nor the patience to go through with it, I will 
> have to pass the buck on this. Heck I can't even create scratch builds 
> for my own testing.

Another possibility is to set up your own 'smock' instance.  We used
this when test-building all the Fedora cross-compiler packages.

Rich.

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