<package> not tagged as an update candidate [again]

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Aug 17 18:05:18 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:01:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On 8/17/10 10:48 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> > Last year I had the same error:
> > 
> >   http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-October/039845.html
> > 
> > Now I'm getting it again:
> > 
> >   fedpkg update
> >   [...]
> >   Creating a new update for  libguestfs-1.4.2-1.fc13 
> >   libguestfs-1.4.2-1.fc13 not tagged as an update candidate
> > 
> > What does this error mean (again)?
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
> 
> In order to submit an update, the package has to be tagged (in koji)
> with 'dist-f??-updates-candidate'.  This is done automatically when you
> have successfully built a package from a branch.  When you get this
> message, that either means you are referencing a build that has not been
> done, has not been complete yet, or has otherwise already been moved
> around within Koji tags.
> 
> I do agree that the error wording could be better.

Indeed, the build failed and I didn't notice.

The working could be better ...

Rich.

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