On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:37 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 07:48, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > * Matthew Miller: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:30:06PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > > wrote: > > >> I love Fedora, but the idea that you can take a 3 year old Fedora and > > >> put it out on the web is just bonkers. We don't have the manpower and > > >> the procedures to make Fedora suitable for this kind of use. > > > > > > Wellllllll, from my statistics, there's a lot of 3-year-old (and older!) > > > Fedora out on the web today. But that aside, let's say we wanted to do it > > > right *and* still keep the distro exciting and fun to hack on. > > > > > > What person-power and procedures would we need to add? > > > > 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. > > What do you mean that the fully exploded upstream source tree? Is it > the entire 'git' repository with all branches in it or just a tar ball > of a particular branch? > > [The git repository can grow to hundreds of gigabytes which would make > every update a huge SRPM file for a small change.] >
He's proposing Debian-style source code forking into git repos and having the build description merged into that source tree. It's usually referred to as merged-source builds. Basically, we no longer use pristine sources as inputs for package builds. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
