[Fedora-packaging] Packages without a dist tag

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 06:08:51AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> The existing use case for using the build target is that packages
> will be able to define rule whitelists for certain checks (rpmlint,
> abipkgdiff) and store them in distgit. In order to download the
> correct whitelist, we need to know which distgit branch to check out.

I've been excited for a while¹ about letting packagers (along with
other test contributors) add tests to a git tree analogous to dist-git.
"test-git", I guess. I imagine 'fedpkg clone' being changed to check
out both trees into a common directory, although there are a lot of
possible implementations. I know you're just talking about whitelists
at this point, but perhaps that could be the first step?

Another thing to consider — if you look at a buildSRPMFromSCM task,
there are parameters like Build Tag and SCM URL — and the the git url
should² include commit hash, even. I was _already_ wondering if we
could find some way to include this in the RPM header, along with the
koji task ID. This would probably be less disruptive than my
ditch-the-dist-tag suggestion. :)




1.https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/194856.html
2. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2015-June/004772.html

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader