Robin, I assume your issue is that rebuilding the RPM means that yum will report a new version and you will waste time and bandwidth to download and install it. Otherwise, I agree with Dean that it's free. Technically, the RPM (and the deb) are built from the tarball not from svn. It should be pretty simple to open the tarball, check the contents of revision.txt, and only rebuild if it's newer than yesterday. I have to wonder though, how often that really happens. Christmas is one of the rare occasions. Otherwise, something is changed almost every day including weekends. Maybe it'll be a lot less for branch nightly's which are more stable...
Dean, The only reason RPMs are being checked into SVN is because it gave people like me the ability to upload them to a download area without needing access to your servers. A couple years ago Dan set up a cron job that copies vendor/yum from SVN to the web server that hosts repos.slimdevices.com. There's no other reason to keep RPMs in SVN, although it would still be nice to have a way for non-SD people to go fix something in the downloads are if it's broken. -- Fletch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41389 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
