[CentOS-devel] How was the old centos git repo maintained?

Thu Jun 22 22:17:19 UTC 2023
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:11 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I never paid much attention to the repos in the past, but after reading
> a comment about "exploded src.rpms" I picked one to review...
> (https://git.centos.org/rpms/bash/commits/c8)
>
> It looks like there was a process (or a person?) that would unpack
> released src.rpms into a git repo, delete Source0, and then commit
> whatever was left.  Is that approximately correct?

Mostly.  The Source0 was uploaded to the lookaside cache.  You can
find references to it in the <package>.metadata file.

josh