Hello everyone, this is my first post to Fedora Infrastructure list, allow me to quickly introduce myself. My name is Michal Sekletar and I work for Red Hat. I co-maintain systemd in both Fedora and RHEL. Also I am Fedora user and contributor for more than 5 years now. Some of you probably know that Red Hat's internal infrastructure (dist-git and build system) has a lot in common with what is available to Fedora packagers. Recently, internally they introduced very nice feature that might be also useful to Fedora packagers. It is the ability to build packages from exploded sources. Packager no longer uploads tarball to lookaside cache and maintains patches in dist-git, but points rhpkg (internal equivalent of fedpkg) to git repo that contains exploded sources with downstream patches applied on top. This allows for easy cherry-picking of patches between branches and a ton of other nice features that make maintainer's life easier. I briefly talked about this with Ralph at Flock. He suggested that I send an email to this list where we can start the discussion if this is something we want in Fedora, and in case yes, how to get there. Cheers, Michal _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
