Joel-- This is all part of corporate due diligence and risk management-- making sure that you have what you need in order to recreate what you are dependent on. When I was at McAfee, one of the regular QA steps was to do a final build of the product and compare it with what had been QA'ed.
Think of it as "Trust, but Verify." :-) Paul Paul Hanchett ------------------- Infotainment Engineer MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, Portland, Oregon, 97204 Email: [email protected] ------------------- Business Details: Jaguar Land Rover Limited Registered Office: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF Registered in England No: 1672070 On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Clark, Joel <[email protected]> wrote: > Wouldn’t it be easier just to download the source RPMs that are archived > with the particularly release? **** > > > http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/ivi/tizen_20130829.9/repos/ivi/source/ > **** > > **** > > Rather than trying to rebuild stuff from the git repos that have already > been updated with new patches before we even finish building the release > much less verifying its good enough to actually release.**** > > ** ** > > Regards**** > > Joel**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Hanchett, Paul > *Sent:* Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:00 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Tizen General] Why not use tags to mark releases rather than > the manifest file?**** > > ** ** > > Why not use tags to mark a particular release, rather than the object ID > in the manifest file? I see several advantages:**** > > - You get a single value that can be handed to gbs/obs to pull all of > the packages as of a particular point in time; new commits have no impact > on the git tag (unlike the branches we use now.) In fact, you might not > even need manifest files........**** > - Now, it becomes dead easy to *see* in each repository the version > that was actually released. Placing tags for other significant events > makes those visible in every repository.**** > > I'm sure there are other advantages. Is there a down side? (I'm > relatively new to git...)**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > > Paul Hanchett > ------------------- > Infotainment Engineer > MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover > One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, Portland, > Oregon, 97204 > > Email: [email protected] > ------------------- > > Business Details: > Jaguar Land Rover Limited > Registered Office: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF **** > > Registered in England No: 1672070**** >
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