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.
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