----- 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 -- Amit Saha <http://echorand.me> Software Engineering and Development Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Beaker-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/beaker-devel
