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On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 18:54 +0800, Xiaofeng Yan wrote:
> From: Xiaofeng Yan <xiaofeng.yan@windriver.com>
> 
> Add a new function to archive source, patches and logs to a source rpm
> package. Every source rpm package  will be deployed to
> ${DEPLOY}/sources/deploy-srpm.

What's the goal of this?  Just to be a "one file" collection of
sources?  Or do we actually expect people to build from this somehow?

If the intention is to eventually allow building, but it's not actually
used to build right now, it seems very likely to "bitrot" as the core
changes.