strange issue with dist-git/fedpkg

[Jesse Keating]

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On 07/31/2010 09:38 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 07/31/2010 01:00 AM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> Dear all,
> 
>> I tried to make a chain build today:
>> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2368385
>> For some reason, an ancient release was picked for goffice, and not the
>> proper 0.8.8-1. Any thoughts?
> 
> I have to admit, the chain-build target is really untested.  I'll have
> to look further into what happened here.
> 

Actually I found the bug, and fixed it at least for building from
rawhide.  It'll be in the next build of fedora-packager.

If you really care, you can locally patch
/usr/lib/python-2.?/site-packages/pyfedpkg/__init__.py with:

@@ -359,7 +359,9 @@ def get_latest_commit(module):

     # This is stupid that I have to use subprocess :/
     url = ANONGITURL % {'module': module}
- -    cmd = ['git', 'ls-remote', url, 'master']
+    # This cmd below only works to scratch build rawhide
+    # We need something better for epel
+    cmd = ['git', 'ls-remote', url, 'refs/heads/master']
     try :
         proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE)


- -- 
Jesse Keating
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