[Pacemaker] [PATCH] Medium: build: require Net-SNMP 5.3 or later

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Florian Haas <florian.haas at linbit.com> wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 10:02 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:17:38AM +0100, Florian Haas wrote:
>>>> Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> now that Pacemaker has been on a bi-monthly release schedule for a
>>>> while, is there any chance you could consider publishing RCs before the
>>>> actual releases, at least for the stable-1.0 branch?
>>> Good idea. That would give others a chance to give the RC a try
>>> and report any problems before the final release.
>>
>> I use the following for the pacemaker rpms I'm using at any given time:
>>    http://www.clusterlabs.org/rpm/testing/
>>
>> They're for 64-bit F-12 but you can rebuild them for whatever platform you like
>> I've no intention of building them for other platforms, I'd spend my
>> entire life building packages instead of getting any work done.
>>
>> Just be sure to refresh the metadata regularly, burning through
>> release numbers and disk space isn't the goal here.
>
> Who said you should build RC _packages_?
>
> Tag an RC, upload a tarball, announce on mailing list, done. How is that
> extra work?
>
> No wait, Pacemaker builds directly from a Mercurial tarball. So scratch
> the upload part.

What does the tag achieve apart from ensuring people waste their time
testing versions that don't have any fixes since it was created?