fedpkg prep

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 17:06:08 UTC 2010


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On 9/1/10 9:01 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> writes:
>>> I propose that fedpkg should consider a --dist option, a "branch"
>>> file, and the name of the current git branch in that order.
>>
>> Or make it a branch config (eg. git config branch.$branch.dist f14).
> 
> This, please.  Using magical branch names or files to decide what 
> release a branch corresponds to seems silly when it can be a property of 
> the branch itself.

We essentially do this now.  We look at the branch merge point, which
tells me what upstream Fedora/RHEL branch you're tracking, which tells
me how to set the macros.  It's only when you aren't tracking a remote
branch that things go south.

- -- 
Jesse Keating
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