Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 05:59:06 EST


David Kastrup wrote:
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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that yum knows this is obsolete?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
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