Allow multiple upstreams for a given distro

[bochecha]

@herlo talked about it in #6

I need it for @network-box as well...

[bochecha]

I have some unpushed code that implements this, based on the git branches that are part of the history of a distro branch.

Here's how it works.

My distro is called "NBRS 5.0", and the Git branch from which builds are made is called nb5.0.

Here is the history [1] for the ppl package in our Git system:

* 97f7033 (HEAD, networkbox/nb5.0, networkbox/HEAD, nb5.0) Initial package for NBRS 5
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* 34c56b9 (networkbox/nb-rhel6) Import ppl-0.10.2-11.el6 from upstream EL 6
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* 42160b0 Initial setup of the repo

So, the repo was created (42160b0), then the SRPM was imported from upstream (34c56b9), and finally we built the package (97f7033).

The code I have right now will checkout the branch for the distro (nb5.0) and iterate over its ancestry, until it finds a branch whose name starts with nb-. (this "branch prefix" is configurable)

When it finds one, it assumes this was the upstream branch, and it can find the corresponding upstream in the uptrack database. (as the admin form for upstreams now has a "git branch" field).

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@herlo, would the above also work for what you have in mind?

[bochecha]

Oops, that shouldn't have been closed by a163914!

It was meant to close #6 instead...