GitHub is a terrible upstream

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Wed Jun 13 18:10:14 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 11:45 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:08:05 -0600
> Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> 
> > %global commit bd245c9
> > 
> > Source0: 
> >
> https://github.com/jukka/pcfi/tarball/%{commit}/jukka-pcfi-%{commit}.tar.gz
> > 
> > %setup -q -n jukka-pcfi-%{commit}
> 
> I do not understand how this is supposed to work in the face of
> "yum update". 

But if you read his email carefully, Orion isn't speaking about the
version.
So commit will be bd245c9 but the version might very well be

Version: 20120613git%{commit}

and as long as the date gets updated, yum will be happy with it.

Pierre


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