On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:02 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Make it cheap to maintain branches. I expect that one what to
achieve
this would be to build directly out of Git, with synthesized release
numbers and changelogs. This way, you can apply a lot of fixes to
multiple branches without encountering mandatory conflicts.
There is no technical reason why the payload in an SRPMs cannot contain
the full exploded upstream source tree, with an RPM spec file in the
root.
One of the problems I've encountered with this approach is that the
upstream Git repo links to (a lot of) submodules. If you're lucky
those submodules point at Git repos and sha1s that don't disappear
over time. It doesn't really capture the entire "source" like I get
with an upstream release tarball.
- Ken