GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:08:05 -0600
Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:

> %global commit bd245c9
> 
> Source0: 
> https://github.com/jukka/pcfi/tarball/%{commit}/jukka-pcfi-%{commit}.tar.gz
> 
> %setup -q -n jukka-pcfi-%{commit}

I do not understand how this is supposed to work in the face of
"yum update".

Suppose I cut a package last year:
 swift3-1.0.0-878c23.tag.xz
Then I build an RPM:
 openstack-swift-plugin-swift3-1.0.0-878c23-1.fc17.noarch.rpm

Today I run the same git-archve and get:
 swift3-1.0.0-5c74ba.tag.xz
 openstack-swift-plugin-swift3-1.0.0-5c74ba-1.fc18.noarch.rpm

Great, how do I update from the old one to the new one? Please do not
suggest epoch.

-- Pete