Resending tagged builds [Re: ERRORS: sblim-cmpi-base.spec]

[Michael Shigorin]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Kacper Kornet wrote:
> Hawk has given the solution to the problem. But my question is
> the purpose of resending the build from the same tag? I'm
> assume that it would a test build, as the ready one would fail
> due to preexisting tag.

Just in case, test-only builds proved to be immensely useful
at ALT -- especially when the build task is pretty complex
(a bunch of packages some of which are popular dependencies).
Doing an unmets check in a new combined repo helps it too.

Those reading Russian might be interested in this whitepaper:
http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/conference/peers/protva/2008/book-thesis-Protva-2008-5.pdf
(p. 47) by Alexey Tourbin.

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