On Tuesday 13 of October 2009 16:50:05 Richard Guenther wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
Hi,
during work on fix for apache2-mod_jk I found that even if the Apache:Modules/apache2-mod_jk is marked as devel project, it contains completely different package with newest version and a different history, which makes it as devel project unusable. So I converted it to source link and submit a fix again.
Anyway I used an attached Python script to find all packages not have the _link in a filelist - their maintainers would consider to fix it. I also attached a list of affected packages.
BTW: is there any simple way how to convert the package to source link? I used the sequence
osc linkpac openSUSE:Factory $PACKAGE $PROJECT osc rremove $PROJECT $PACKAGE `osc ls $PROJECT $PACKAGE | grep -v _link`
but it messed the commit log, because every one deletion is one commit.
Well, luckily you didn't catch devel:gcc/gdb. And of course a setup this way may be completely on purpose! It definitely is for gdb.
Thats not a luck - that is a list of packages not contains a _link, what gdb is not. And I don't want to force anyone to fix it, this is just JFI.
Btw. the very much most important case in that this is the preferred way is if you track an upstream rpm package and do not want to have gazillions of merge errors just because the Factory package gets its spec file munged completely on each checkin.
Yes, I'm aware about it. But I'm not sure how the semantics is? Is the _link just for the default submission target of osc submitreq? Will the --diff and other thinks work? I'm thinking about same workflow for some of my packages (unsurprisingly from Fedora too), so it's the reason why I'm asking.
Ok, that had to be said.
.spec file changing on checkin is EVIL. EVIL. EVIL. (can't repeat it often enough).
fully agreed - do we know what's the reason for that? If some parts of spec don't match some requirements, it should be told using rpmlint, or maybe in rejected checkin. Regards Michal Vyskocil