Ben Walton <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ben Walton <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> There would still be a discrepancy between pkginfo and pkgdb. >> >> Can you explain this in more depth please? > > Currently, csw-upload-pkg and pkgdb code backing that are using the > metadata stored directly in the package to determine the value of the > maintainer.
pkdb can be made aware of the --nmu usage with csw-upload-pkg, isn't it? > We could override this with a flag as you're suggesting but if someone then > installs the package they'd have the pkginfo file containing information > that is a mismatch with the website view. > > This isn't a deal breaker by any means but I think we can do better. I'm > proposing that the override happens earlier (in GAR) so that pkgdb can be > ignorant of it entirely. But this modifies the recipe. BTW, what incantation would you use for this? > The down side of doing it with GAR is implementing a nice mechanism for the > user to specify the maintainer (different than the current packager). Can you give an example of the mechanism? -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
