Re: Cannot install git RPM

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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But the resulting RPM cannot be installed either,  at  least  not  in
standard Fedora Core 2/3/4 installations:
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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.

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.

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere