"master" branch still invokes build in f17-candidate??

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Feb 29 04:31:00 UTC 2012


Tom Lane wrote:

> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
>> Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>> If you say to Koji that it should checkout master at remote machine,
>>> build a SRPM etc, why the Koji can't determine the proper %{?dist} at
>>> remote machine? Why it takes the %{?dist} from local machine instead? It
>>> makes no sense. It might work for other branches, but master is bit
>>> different, so it should be handled differently.
> 
>> Yes, for fedpkg build, the client should not have to care about what
>> %{?dist} is at all. It should just ask Koji to build the current git hash
>> in Rawhide and that's it.
> 
> Nope, it's not that easy, as some purely-local operations (eg "fedpkg
> srpm") also want to know the dist tag.

Those operations can use Jesse's heuristics, but there's no good reason to 
use them for fedpkg build.

        Kevin Kofler



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