make force-tag gone

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 17:39:34 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 12:01 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 
> force-tag can also be used to move the tag of a package that *was*
> built, if you're not careful.  That's the situation we need to avoid.
> You can also view tagging as "I intend to build this".  Why shouldn't
> we be able to track failed builds?  It was submitted to Koji so even
> though it didn't result in a set of packages there was some effect on
> the system.

That brings up an important point.  Often we'll want to examine why a
build failed and being able to get to the exact source of that build is
important, not whatever the maintainer thinks that tag should equate to
today.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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