On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:30 PM Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote:
>
> The doc does assume that the reader has some familiarity with
> the rpmdistro-gitoverlay project, yes.  I'll look at tweaking that
> doc to mention looking at the toplevel README.

I looked at the top-level README but I gotta admit I was equally lost.
And it says it "is no longer under active development", so I'm not
sure what the status is.

> rpmdistro-gitoverlay *replaces* koji, it isn't something you can use
> on a "traditional package".

Thanks, this was one of the missing pieces for me :) It would help to
expand this out in that document.

> Anyways, it's pretty simple, rpmdistro-gitoverlay does a recursive
> git mirror in to src/ - and recursive here includes submodules, for
> exactly the reason you raised.  A number of important real-world
> modules use them (including ostree/rpm-ostree).

I see, so it's dynamically re-writing the .gitmodules file(s) on each build?

We had something like this in Ceph,
https://github.com/ceph/autobuild-ceph/blob/master/use-mirror.sh
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