[Fedora-spins] RFC 4 - Make building package not require commits

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:26:23 -0500,
   Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>Currently when building a new spin-kickstarts package a new commit is 
>needed after changing configure.ac and spin-kickstarts.spec.in. This 
>is kind of awkward when trying to build a new package based on a 
>specific commit used to build an RC (especially if other commits have 
>been added since the one we are targeting).
>
>I won't work on this until after spin-kickstarts.spec.in isn't being 
>maintained in the git repo any more (RFC 2).
>
>I am not sure exactly how I would like to implement this, so comments 
>are welcome.
>
>My thought is that if there is a tag for the current commit that that 
>tag would get used as the version (which would get used in the tar 
>ball name). If there was no match then I was thinking of using a 
>version like git-<commit id prefix>.
>
>I would change the make file to just support make dist (which would 
>just build a tar ball) and make clean. The autotools stuff would go 
>away.

This has been completed.