----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Coghlan" <[email protected]>
> To: "beaker-devel" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:13:24 PM
> Subject: [Beaker-devel] Compatibility issue with the new rhts default task    
> RPM naming
> 
> With the current master branch in RHTS, the default behaviour of "make
> rpm" and "make bkradd" is now to leave out the repo name.
> 
> However, due to the way the per-recipe task library snapshotting
> currently works (as described in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055815), I believe that's a
> problematic change until we fix
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055821 in order to handle
> task RPM *renames* in addition to outright deletion.
> 
> If we release RHTS in its current state, people may generate RPMs with
> the new names, upload them, and then find
> scheduled-but-not-yet-executing jobs aborting as they're told to try to
> find the *new* name in the *old* snapshot, which isn't going to work.
> The trick of providing the old package name in the new RPM that we
> thought handled this doesn't actually help, because it gets the problem
> backwards.

If I understand correctly, these changes are part of the rhts-devel package.
So, we may not be able to "release" rhts, but it seems to me that we may still
be able to deploy the upgrade to rhts-test-env, so that the fix to this bug [1] 
is released. 

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026670




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Amit Saha <http://echorand.me>
Software Engineering and Development
Red Hat, Inc.
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