From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:46:51 +0100 Message-ID: <46DBBBEB.6010701@zytor.com> References: <7vodglr32i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46DA5F33.2020005@zytor.com> <85odgltrtj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <46DA88EF.7080103@zytor.com> <20070902133803.1b46f599.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Kastrup , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Sean X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 03 09:48:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IS6fB-0002XR-1W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:48:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752287AbXICHrb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:47:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752076AbXICHrb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:47:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:32879 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbXICHra (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:47:30 -0400 Received: from titan.hos.anvin.org ([217.206.93.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l837lJMJ005652 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:47:22 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) In-Reply-To: <20070902133803.1b46f599.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4134/Sun Sep 2 22:21:40 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sean wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:57:03 +0100 > "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >> From the looks of it, there is still a git-p4, it just moved to contrib >> and uses fast-import, so removing its rpm package was probably broken in >> the first place. > > Hi Peter, > > Items in contrib aren't officially supported, so it doesn't sound like > a good idea to offer installs for them. Of course, it might be a good > idea to promote git-p4 up out of contrib and add it to the spec file. Well, the old one was out of contrib, too. Maybe it should never have been packaged up, but it was... > As things stand now, do you get an error when trying to upgrade Git via > yum? I'd have thought things would upgrade fine but leave the old git-p4 > rpm hanging around. Either way, the obsoletes line mentioned by David > sounds like the right solution. Yes, it gets an error, because all the git RPMs are tied together by explicit version number and so can only be upgraded as a group. > As an aside, when I sent the patch removing git-p4import from the spec > file I mentioned that I had no way to test it and asked for testers. > Git needs a spec file maintainer so that issues like this can be caught > before release. Without a maintainer, it should probably be demoted > to contrib itself. Well, git on kernel.org (and many other places) critically depends on rpms being available. -hpa