Re: Security issue: Can't build mediawiki - F7 thinks it's F8

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:35:33 +0200
Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > CVS tag you asked for lives  
>                         ^^^^^
> > > Typo?  
> > 
> > Not exactly.  Expression mismatch.  The tag was /applied/ on the
> > devel/ branch, so when cvs is asked for that tag, it tries to pull
> > it from devel/ and bad things happen.  
> 
> I was referring to "lives"

I know.  I used the term 'lives' to indicate that the reference to that
tag exists on the devel/ branch, IE it "lives" there, that's it's home.

> 
> > > > in devel, koji gets a little confused when making the srpm for
> > > > you. You'll most likely need to bump/tag on F-7 then you can
> > > > build and it will get the proper .fc7 tag to it.    
> > > 
> > > Hm, this sounds more like a bug that should be fixed in koji.
> > > Wouldn't that apply to any kind of branching CVS, e.g. koji
> > > inherits bad tags to branches? This bug only surfaces if the
> > > tagsing and building is intermitted by the branch, but consider
> > > adding new archs to Fedora, it will hit all packages (as the
> > > build for the new arch will be after the branching, unless new
> > > archs are limited to devel).  
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure how this is going to be handled.  It probably
> > does need looking into, something deep in the cvs "branching"
> > scripts we use.  My cvs-fu isn't nearly that strong :(  
> 
> OK, so for now bump-and-go and worry about mass issues only once they
> arrive?

Feel free to examine the branching tools and cvs layout to try to make
it better.  I'm just saying that I can't right now.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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