On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Michael Stahnke
<mastahnke(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> After some discussion in IRC (Fedora-admin) we are wondering if
> pushing a new git in EPEL is a good idea. There are some changes such
> as git-command vs git command. So there could be some breakage.
>
> Should we push a new git and cause some breakage or stick with
> old-n-busted?
>
> My thoughts are to push out a new one, since I think if you are using
> git, you curse everytime you touch this old crusty thing :)
I personally would say yes. While scripts may break, the repositories
will be fine.
If "git command" vs "git-command" is the only incompatibility, it
should be
trivial to provide the latter in the package with tiny wrapper scripts or even
just one that parses $0 and add symlink to it for each needed command, or
install that script multiple times with different names and hardlink them if
wanted, or... (see for example rpmdev-md5, rpmdev-sha* and friends in
rpmdevtools).