[SlimDevices: Beta] [Slim-Checkins] r15591 - in

[Robin Bowes]

Fletch wrote:
> Robin,
> 
> I assume your issue is that rebuilding the RPM means that yum will
> report a new version and you will waste time and bandwidth to download
> and install it.

Yes, that's it. (I replied before reading your post!)

> Technically, the RPM (and the deb) are built from the tarball not from
> svn.  It should be pretty simple to open the tarball, check the
> contents of revision.txt, and only rebuild if it's newer than
> yesterday.  I have to wonder though, how often that really happens. 
> Christmas is one of the rare occasions.  Otherwise, something is
> changed almost every day including weekends.  Maybe it'll be a lot less
> for branch nightly's which are more stable...


I agree this has only appeared to be a problem because it's Christmas
and activity has died down, but you're right that more stable branches
will run into this issue too.

I think it would be a good idea to fix it now before the repos go "live".

R.