On Thu 10 June 2010 2:44:47 pm Jesse Keating wrote: > It's been a while since I last updated folks on dist-git, and in reality > it's been a while since I last worked on it. Fedora 13 took up all my > time. > > Since my last update we've made great progress on fedpkg, the new tool > that will replace the make system. It is packaged up with > fedora-packager and has the ability to do many tasks that our Make > system handled. Here is a quick list: > > build > chainbuild > clean > clog > clone > compile > gimmespec > install > lint > local > mockbuild > new > new_sources > prep > scratchbuild > sources > srpm > unusedpatches > verrel > > Many of these targets take optional arguments which extend their > functionality and replace some other specific Make targets. This list > is enough to get us checking code out and in, and building in koji. > > On the koji front we've recently discovered the changes necessary to > build from dist-git style repos, and those changes are being polished up > and committed upstream. We have done multiple builds successfully from > dist-git repos. > > Where do we go from here? > > We're ready for more wide scale testing, and to facilitate that I am > refreshing the git repos from current CVS (people with existing clones > will have to blow them away and re-clone), and getting a koji stage > instance up that we can build against (with limited builders). We'll > then push out another fedora-packager update that has the right URLs to > build against this stage Koji and announce that it is ready for > building. > > Based on this testing, and some decisions around git tagging and branch > usage, we stand a good chance at being able to roll this out prior to > the F14 branch event. I hope you are all as excited as I am about this! How will this affect current packagers' workflow? Will the changes necessary be documented on the wiki? It doesn't seem straight off the bat that this would be a drop-in replacement without packagers needing to tweak their workflow. Ryan -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word == -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
