Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:57:03 +0100

David Kastrup wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]> 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 that yum knows this is obsolete?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