buildsys misconfigured

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:50:05 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:01, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 1) "FC-6" branch never points at "devel".
> I know this 

In the previous message you wrote:

  | but the only thing i thought was perhaps you had an old common
  | tree that had FC-6 pointing at devel.  its a wild guess nothing
  | more.

This would not lead to the same symptoms. Assume the following:

Case 1: No "FC-6" branch and old "common" checkout.

  I would run "make build" in "devel" (where else?), which is
  still at ".fc6". But the job would target "devel", not "fc6"!

Case 2: "FC-6" branch and old "common" checkout.

  I would run "make build" in "FC-6", which has no corresponding entry
  in the "common/branches" file. Would that work and produce good
  plague-client arguments which target "fc6"?

Also note that no new tag was created, but an old tag was re-used.

> > 2) An old common/branches can have "devel" point at ".fc6" instead of
> > ".fc7".
> >
> > 3) The plague-client command-line does NOT contain anything like "devel"
> > or "fc7". Only "fc6".
> i know that  and i could not repoduce your problem

Interesting would be any theory, where the .fc7 (for the generated src.rpm)
can come from when nothing in the plague-client args contains "fc7".

> > 4) The buildsys was asked to build an fc6-tagged package for target fc6,
> > but built a fc7 src.rpm.
> Yes  and i have not yet worked out why it did.  Could you tar up your cvs tree 
> so that i can disect it to see if it gives me any clues.

Why? The local CVS working-copy is irrelevant. Everything is encoded
in here:

  /usr/bin/plague-client build SDL_image SDL_image-1_2_5-2_fc6 fc6
 
It is a client that does not use CVS at all.