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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Distributed packaging for a community distro</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and P. Christeas at 19/09/10 11:07 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On Sunday 19 September 2010, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
</I>>><i> Hey,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I'm a Fedora packager, and we recently switched to Git as a SCM. It's
</I>>><i> working fine for us, maybe these pages can be of inspiration :
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dist_Git_Proposal">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dist_Git_Proposal</A>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_GIT">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_GIT</A>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> We're also using a small command-line wrapper called fedpkg to interact
</I>>><i> with the build system and to make it easier for non-git users to grasp the
</I>>><i> packaging workflow.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I don't know what you already have setup, so this may be irrelevant... ;-)
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> *Definitely* like the idea of cooperating with other distros. Let's end up with
</I>><i> something everybody will benefit from.
</I>
I think for simplisity in the initial stages, we'll likely be sticking
with SVN considering there is a *lot* of infrastructural things to get
in place.
But overall, I'd *very* much like to entertain a svn->git switch. Using
the experiences of the fedora packages here would make a *lot* of sense
from a general sharing perspective.
Plus with the amount of upstream projects using git this has a lot of
advantages.
I've not read the above fedora links yet (I definitely will), but the
two immediate problems I have are:
* Binary churn: If we add the tarballs, there can be a lot of binary
churn. Cloning a git repo means we get the full history locally which
means all copies of the tarball over the x years period. SVN is better
suited to binary churn, only keeping the most recent version in your
checkout. This is likely discussed above.
* Tagging: When a release is done, the packages need to be tagged. This
is more awkward with individual repos rather than one central one, but I
suspect it's a relatively easy process to script.
(I do hope these are mentioned in the above links)
Anyway, as a general rule, I'm very much behind using git for packages :)
Col
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