dist-git tag question

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Aug 3 23:12:50 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> Apologies if this was asked for and answered in another thread, I lost
> overview. Ralf and Kevin made me realise something that I have
> misinterpreted initially in regards to how packages are tagged now.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_GIT claims that tagging is not
> necessary and that the commitid is now submitted to koji. fair enough, but
> the confusing thing here is:
> "When successful on Koji, the build will trigger the package to be tagged
> with the corresponding tag (e.g., dist-f15 for Rawhide [...]"
>
> does this mean the dist-f15 tag is forcibly updated each time a build is
> successful? If so, where is this tag hiding? I can't seem to get it into my
> repo even though it is listed as a koji tag in the emails. Or are we not
> talking about git tags here anyway?

Not sure about this part.

> The other question and that may just be a feature request:
> the CVS tags are still visible in my repo, e.g.
> mtdev-1_0_1-1_20100706_fc14. these tags are useful, because in a few weeks
> time I won't be able to remember the commit ID of a specific version (I know
> I can get it from the logs, but it's annoying).
>
> If a build succeeds and is to be released as a package, can koji apply the
> tag again to the git repo? It would allow for simple things like git diff
> foo-1.1-2.fc12..foo-1.1-3.fc13.

The plan, as I understand it, is for koji to apply the git tags after
a successful build, but its not yet been implemented. For the time
being, I plan to simply add annotated tags myself after each
successful build of packages I own.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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