[SlimDevices: Beta] [Slim-Checkins] r15591 - in /vendor/yum/squeezecenter-testing: repodata/filelists.xml.gz repodata/other.xml.gz repodata/primary.xml.gz repodata/repomd.xml squeezecenter-7.0.0-0.1.20071226.noarch.rpm

[dean blackketter]

On Dec 26, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Robin Bowes wrote:

> dean blackketter wrote:
>> I think we shouldn't be checking in the nightly builds, rather only
>> the source that creates them.
>
> Well, that's a different issue; one which I also support.
>
> The tarballs and RPMs can be re-created from the svn repo, and the yum
> repo information re-built from the contents of the repo itself. So  
> yes,
> it makes sense to only check in changes to the .spec file, the build
> scripts, and of course change to the source itself.
>
> Perhaps the build script should dump state somewhere and only  
> rebuild if
> anything has changed since the last build?
Well, the cycles for building a fresh version every night are  
essentially free.

The other platforms do a clean build then copy the files to the  
server host.  Seems to me like the new RPM build process should do  
the same and copy to the yum repository.