From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:57:03 +0100 Message-ID: <46DA88EF.7080103@zytor.com> References: <7vodglr32i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46DA5F33.2020005@zytor.com> <85odgltrtj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 02 11:59:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRmER-000216-NB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:59:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755866AbXIBJ6U (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 05:58:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755854AbXIBJ6U (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 05:58:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43333 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755794AbXIBJ6T (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 05:58:19 -0400 Received: from titan.hos.anvin.org ([217.206.93.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l829vTNx019382 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:57:34 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) In-Reply-To: <85odgltrtj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4131/Sun Sep 2 01:47:51 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for >>> fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. >>> >> There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS. >> >> In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which prevents git >> from getting upgraded at all by yum. >> >> Anyone who knows yum well enough to explain what needs to be done so >> that yum knows this is obsolete? > > Probably a matter of the correct spec file. In auctex.spec, we have > 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. "make rpm" is also broken for "dirty" builds, which is bad for testing. -hpa