Dear Fedora Developers, So recently I found myself desiring to update a .spec file for a snapshot of a git tree in an automated fashion. As you may or may not know, this actually has a surprising number of flaming hoops through which you must jump. The first one, when scripting such a thing, is pulling the source tree and packing it into a source file. To this purpose, I propose we begin adding the following key to .spec files: #VCS: <url format entry for version control system> Note the use of a comment. There's a ticket to support this key more explicitly in RPM: http://rpm.org/attachment/ticket/143 However I didn't want to block my scripts on that patch landing; in any case we currently add human-consumable comments (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL) for VCS snapshots now, so think of this key as just more of that. Having the version control system in the spec file will help a lot for other things like automating source tarball verification. The second hoop is correctly handling the Release tag. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Version has lots of gory details. But basically, this can be automated. Another hoop is the autotools; you have a variety of choices here, but it's most common to add BuildRequires on them, and figure out how to bootstrap. This latter part requires a bit of build intelligence (my scripts recognize the case of autotools, and the more specific case of gnome-autogen.sh). I'd actually like to break out the build recognition system into a separate python library of some sort. So without further ado, my current scripts: http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=walters/public_git/fedpkg-make-pull.git;a=summary I'd actually like to get these into Jesse's new fedpkg work, but for now these operate on distcvs. Executive summary: if you find yourself needing to automate git-spec integration, you should use my scripts, because they're cool. I'm sure I'm not the first person to write these scripts, but I'd like to get these upstream into fedpkg. Patches for other version control systems (and major build systems like distutils and cmake) are happily accepted! What am I using them for? Automating gnome-shell stack snapshots for F12: $ fedpkg-pull-build-chain --arch=i386 --arch=x86_64 --release=F-12 --resultdir=_repo gobject-introspection gir-repository gjs clutter mutter gnome-shell -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
