On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 04:30:38PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Josh Boyer
<jwboyer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 06:25:55PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> 0) Would it be possible to add tags to the kernel.git repository
>> corresponding to the "%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}" tags (ie, rpm querytags)
of
>> the kernel rpms (that have actually been released)?
>>
>> 1) Eg, checking out the current Fedora 16 kernel could be done with
>> git checkout 3.3.2-1.fc16
>>
>> instead of
>> rpm -q kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16 --changelog | head
>> git log -p origin/f16 | less
>> [ grep on the string "Linux 3.3.2" ]
>> [ copy a sha1sum ]
>> git checkout 28b13140ec3375d59bac4f2d6bc336f7b8ed6fc7
>
> We might be able to script something to do this.
>
>> 2) Or would that require a lot of work for the people in charge of stuff
>> like that?
>
> It's not a huge burden, but it's something we'd need to remember to do.
> And if we have to remember it, we're going to forget it sometimes too
> ;).
>
> Lets see what can be scripted so we don't have to remember and then we
> can run it by the team.
This is already available in fedpkg:
$ fedpkg gitbuildhash kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16
28b13140ec3375d59bac4f2d6bc336f7b8ed6fc7
That covers the hard part. Now we need to look into coming up with a
workflow that uses that and creates the approriate tags.
josh