Infrastructure/SCMSig/Agenda

SCMSig Agenda

Topic of the day - can we make "exploded tree" packages work?

Features

• Easier to develop/maintain/share patches.
• No longer need lookaside cache of tarballs.

Pitfalls

• How do we separate "upstream" code from patches applied in the Fedora package.
• How do we keep patches that are Fedora-specific and shouldn't be sent upstream from patches that should be.
• This will likely require maintainers to become more familiar with whatever SCM is chosen.
• Can no longer use lookaside cache to keep SCM size down.
• How do we conditionally apply patches (e.g. for arch- or feature-specific patches)?
• How can we verify that the code in our tree is identical to the upstream tarball?
• Can we automate the conversion?

Examples

• Ubuntu Proposal
• Debian package management with GNU Arch