On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:47 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > Instead I prefer a clone of the master upstream git repo and maintain a > > branch with patches cherry-picked into it. This is used to auto-generate > > patches for the Fedora RPM, at the same time updating the patch file list > > in the RPM spec. The only manual step is adding the changelog entry & > > bumping release number. > > Quick note: this is essentially what debian does.
Ugh. Can we please just agree that source-git (vs. dist-git) is almost always a bad idea? > If you want to go this way, I hope we can avoid the need to generate > a "pristine" tarball and patches. Instead, the contents of the repo should > be directly used for a build. A tarball can be created, but this tarball > would always be the tip of the tree containing both the sources and > the packaging. > > Zbyszek > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
