Build control-center in mock fail

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Sun May 26 01:36:49 UTC 2013


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:15:22 -0400
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [ Sorry for the late reply, I've been at a family funeral this week. ]
>
> :(
>
>> That's very specific to the Fedora build environment. Difficult to
>> replicate in the field without a huge local build structure! And
>> enforced by a specific build environment is nowhere near the same
>> thing as "mandated by published policy" to help SRPM builders know how
>> they should plan their work.
>
> ...snip...
>
> I'm sure we could ask the FPC to add this to guidelines.
> I've filed such a ticket, please feel free to add comments:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/295
>
> kevin

It's reasonable, but is missing an important feature. "All source
materials for the RPM must also be contained in the new SRPM,
preferably as source material." This creates a preference for source
rather than .jar, .war, or .gem files, but I think that's really
desirable.


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