On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:47 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Instead I prefer a clone of the master upstream git repo and maintain a
> branch with patches cherry-picked into it. This is used to auto-generate
> patches for the Fedora RPM, at the same time updating the patch file list
> in the RPM spec. The only manual step is adding the changelog entry &
> bumping release number.
Quick note: this is essentially what debian does.
Ugh. Can we please just agree that source-git (vs. dist-git) is almost
always a bad idea?
> If you want to go this way, I hope we can avoid the need to generate
> a "pristine" tarball and patches. Instead, the contents of the repo should
> be directly used for a build. A tarball can be created, but this tarball
> would always be the tip of the tree containing both the sources and
> the packaging.
>
> Zbyszek
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