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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-xen-4.5] tools/mkrpm: improve
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:32:22 +0000
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On 11/03/2014 02:24 PM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, George Dunlap wrote:
>
>> How difficult would it be to have this be something sensible like,
>> "changesets since last tag"?
> Very difficult, because one does changes without commit, runs 'make
> rpmball' and expects that rpm -Fvh *.rpm continues to work.

Right.  Personally, I think trying to make "rpm -Fvh" work for all the 
use cases a developer might want is more hassle than it's worth; as I 
said, I have scripts that just do "rpm -e" in such cases.  I wouldn't 
oppose it, but I don't really support it either.

Ian / Ian / Wei, any thoughts?

  -George