[Fedora-spins] Please make sure your spins are in working order!

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:14:51 +0200,
>  Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
>> Some heavy testing by both Peter and me have brought a couple of
>> issues in the Moblin Spin and Sugar on a Stick to the surface. While
>> these don't render the spins entirely unusable, the recent commits to
>> the spin-kickstarts git repo would enhance the usability highly
>> (Moblin) and remove an previously prominent application that's broken
>> after a system lib update (upstream has been notified).
>>
>> It'd be really awesome if we could get these last-minute changes into
>> the builds. Is there anything I can do to help make that happen?
>
> I started looking at some of this but can't continue right now.
>
> There was also an update to broffice ks file to remove a package that has
> occured since 13.4 was made.
>
> I am not sure exactly how kanarip makes the tar.gz file from the git repo
> as I am seeing some differences (that may be due to sym links or something).
> So I don't want to try to rush something out this minute and screw it up.
> I haven't done one yet since kanarip made a few of us co-maintainers so
> I am not sure exactly what to do and need to be very careful to not break
> things. I'll be sure to get some practice for F14, so I will be in a better
> position to help in these cases.

It might be a good idea to document the process of creating the tar
file from git in the top of the spec file like I believe is done
currently for pckages that get their source code from some VC so it
can be recreated.

Cheers,
Peter