Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:46:51 +0100 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 |
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Sean wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:57:03 +0100 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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.
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