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Re: Cannot install git RPM

From
RARyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2005, 00:30 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> >> But the resulting RPM cannot be installed either,  at  least  not  in
> >> standard Fedora Core 2/3/4 installations:
> >> ...
> >> Is there at least some  documentation  which  external  packages  are
> >> needed, and where to find these?
> 
> The problematic one is git-send-email-script.

Yup. I'll take the blame for that one - I forget how inclusive the Debian packaging is compared to the other distributions.

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> I have to admit that it was a mistake to take that patch; I was
> trying to be _too_ inclusive.  The script does not even read
> from nor write into a git repository, and the only relevance to
> git is that it is useful for people to patchbomb the list with
> git generated patches.  In other words, the program may be
> useful, but its usefulness does not have much to do with git, so
> it does not belong to git.

Well, here I think I disagree. I think it's a valid, possibly vital, part of the suggested workflow for maintainers of projects. Admittedly, the emails can be sent by hand in many cases - but for the "clean up the history" goal of exporting things out as patches, the email step is important.

> My short-term plan is to downgrade it to "contrib" status, and
> not touch it from the main Makefile.  It will be in the 0.99.4
> sources but will not be installed nor made into binary package.
> I hope Ryan does not mind this decision.

Not at all. I agree that the RPM dependency problem is a good reason to not install it by default. What I will do is make this the beginning of my directory structure reorganization. I'll probably also convert the Debian package to a multi-package system, so we have a demonstration of splitting these two items up.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere
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