Re: git for change control of software deployment updates

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Neal Kreitzinger<neal@rsss.com>  wrote:
>> I am considering using git with submodules to deploy most of our updates to
>> our customer linux servers (not including third party rpm updates already
>> tracked by linux distro rpm repository).  Has anyone else done this?
>> Comments?  (Sanity check.)  (I am new to submodules.)
>
> I wrote a script that converts a git source repository into a redhat
> src.rpm.  We use it at my $dayjob.  How about doing something like
> that?  After you have a src.rpm you can create rpms that you can
> distribute using yum.  You are already using rpm which is why I
> mention it.  Converting a directory of rpm files into a hostable
> repository is as simple as `createrepo /path/to/rpms/`.
>
> The git project has a 'make rpm' target in its Makefile that you could
> use as an example.