Hi Neal,
On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 06:21 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41 PM Jeremy Cline jeremy@jcline.org wrote:
Hi folks,
This should come as no surprise to those who have been following the kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there are some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in the next couple of weeks.
For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist- git, this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be easier.
We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in the dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts to turn the source tree into something that can be automatically checked into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the dist- git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
I don't think that's actually acceptable under Fedora guidelines, as that violates the canonicity rule on the sources and spec[1].
Have you already worked out how to deal with that yet?
Yes, I'll add something to the import script that checks to see if the prior commit is not from the import script. If it notices someone else committing to the dist-git it'll stop and require a maintainer handle it manually.
- Jeremy