Jesse Another dumb question. I uploaded a package, frama-c. Will it be included in 14. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all! It's that time again, we're gearing up to branch for Fedora 14 > this coming Tuesday! There is a major twist this time around, we're > going to attempt a roll out of dist-git! > > Dist-git is our replacement for the CVS system we are currently using. > This is a pretty big deal, but we're going to try to make it as smooth > as possible. In the next few days I'll be finalizing our git server > setup and polishing up the user interface tool you all will be using to > interact with the source control and build system. > > The conversion will take a couple days, which means our normal short > outage for branching will be a bit extended. I wish there was another > way, but converting over 9K cvs repos into git repos does take some > time. I really feel that this move is worth the extended outage. > > The tool you all will use to interact with git and the buildsystem is > called "fedpkg". It comes from the fedora-packager package. There is a > version of it available now in all active Fedora and EPEL releases, > although it is built to work against our staging environment where we > have been testing the setup for a while. This setup is slightly > different than the final version, but you can install it and poke around > the help system to get a feel for what's going on. Most of the make > targets have made it over and are named the same; build, sources, srpm, > etc... Many of the targets can take arguments and options. Where the > make system used shell variables, fedpkg uses options and arguments. > Each target takes a --help argument that will show any available > options. Fedpkg does not yet have a man page, that may be coming soon. > > We're also going to be working on wiki pages to document the new stuff > and archive the old stuff. We're going to need help on this too, so if > you want to pitch in, by all means! > > As I mentioned above, this is an attempt. We are trying this pretty > early, which I wouldn't normally do. However we have a good roll back > plan. We are going to keep the CVS server as is, although turned > read-only during and after the dist-git rollout. If something fails > beyond reasonable repair with the dist-git attempt we will re-enable > write access to the CVS server (after we branch it for Fedora 14). > Otherwise we will keep it around, in some capacity, as a read-only > reference point. > > I'm certain we will run into some bumps along the way, and some wrinkles > to iron out. I ask that you are patient with us as we work through > these, and as we either get updates pushed out of fedpkg or make > adjustments to the git repos on the git server. This transition has > been a long time coming, and I'm really happy to be the one to make it > happen. Keep in mind that this will be the first iteration of our > transition, and it will operate mostly the same as dist-cvs did with a > few improvements. Later on we will start to explore more interesting > advancements such as automatic patch management with exploded sources, > linking to upstream source repositories, automatic %changelog generation > from git changelogs, or things I haven't even thought about. Most of > all, we won't be using CVS any more and that feels really good to me. > > If you're curious about how the new system will work or have concerns, > or want to help, you can reply to this email thread or find me on IRC as > "Oxf13" (that's an o, not a zero). If you run across bugs in fedpkg, > you can file them in the fedora-packager hosted trac space > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-packager/ or just find me on IRC as well. > > Thanks again for your patience, both in waiting so long for us to make > this move, and for bearing with us during the transition. > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > _______________________________________________ > devel-announce mailing list > devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
