On 05/23/2013 04:47 PM, Paul Flo Williams wrote:
John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
>> From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>
>> What I would like to see is
>> solid git integration. Git has become the standard distributed vcs
>> and github and google code etc have stopped hosting tarballs and/or
>> discouraging it and GNOME is planning to do that as well. If Source
>> URL could point directly to a git url with a hash or git tag, we
>> would benefit.
>
> Amen to that! I roll my own rpms daily from locally developed sources
> where we have no policy of pushing tarballs. From everything I've ever
> been able to figure out, it's necessary for me to make temporary tarballs
> just to feed rpmbuild. It always seems such a huge waste of time,
> especially for very large packages.
RPM would still be making tarballs behind the scenes, even with better
integration with git, wouldn't it? -- you still need the ability to make
SRPMs.
But rpm could just do a git-tar-tree behind the scenes, which sounds
easy enough.
Thanks & regards, Phil
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