[CentOS-devel] using GIT as VCS for packaging rpms

Sun Nov 9 23:43:51 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> So to me it
> would seem that all the metadata needed to build the distro should be
> something that you want to version control individually?

Most of this goes into the spec file itself. There are some things that 
are package dependant and not carried in the spec file - eg, the 
perpackage builder hints. But yes, I see your point. However, in the 
CentOS context, tracking this info with the package is easiest ( eg. 
which packages contribute to mixed arch, or even more complex when only 
some subpackages from the present package are contributed when the main 
package is not ).

> (Note that the (1) use case is rather rare, and if you're not
> truncating history when checking out, you'll end up with a couple of
> gigabytes worth of checkout.)

Its not that corner case for us in the CentOS builder setups, we handle 
most things for the entire distro as a single collection and run 
branches for the entire trunk/ with each major released! Even signaling 
for the buildsystem is being done via a tag across the entire distro 
tree, and we do that a few times every release.

This is the sort of thing I meant with my 'thinking in svn terms'...

but thanks for your feedback, its helped confirm and reenforce the lines 
that I was thinking about as well.

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