On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:22:13AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:16 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu October 9 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > Only if we allow source repo tags to be a suitable source distribution
> > method. Since fedorahosted still doesn't have an easy to use way of
> > distributing tarballs, and getting the code via a scm checkout is quite
> > easy, it should suffice.
>
> If this is the only obstacle to get this done, I will write a patch for
> Makefile.common that displays the URL for every file in sources to fetch it
> from the lookaside cache. Then this URL can be provided as source tarball on
> a fedorahosted wiki page.
Why must we insist on tarballs? Unless the tarball includes scm
metadata in it, it's practically useless for upstream patch development.
And why is upstream development being done from a Fedora SCM checkout?
josh