> From: pknir...@redhat.com > On 05/23/2013 04:47 PM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: > > john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: > >>> From: Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> > >>> What I would like to see is > >>> solid git integration. Git has become the standard distributed vcs > >>> and github and google code etc have stopped hosting tarballs and/or > >>> discouraging it and GNOME is planning to do that as well. If Source > >>> URL could point directly to a git url with a hash or git tag, we > >>> would benefit. > >> > >> Amen to that! I roll my own rpms daily from locally developed sources > >> where we have no policy of pushing tarballs. From everything I've ever > >> been able to figure out, it's necessary for me to make temporary tarballs > >> just to feed rpmbuild. It always seems such a huge waste of time, > >> especially for very large packages. > > > > RPM would still be making tarballs behind the scenes, even with better > > integration with git, wouldn't it? -- you still need the ability to make > > SRPMs. > > > > But rpm could just do a git-tar-tree behind the scenes, which sounds > easy enough.
Exactly. And even though I have to give rpmbuild a tarball, I don't believe it ever reuses it "as is". My understanding is that the content gets extracted, processed and tarballed again. I'd like to see it behave more the way I expected it to when I naively first started rolling my own packages. Specifically, it would be nice if the %Source URI was processed intelligently to automatically retrieve the content via HTTP, FTP, GIT, FILE or whatever (within reason) happens to be specified there. -- John Florian
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