On 07/16/2015 07:53 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> One thing which I find very annoying when creating new packages is the
> need to use bare rpmbuild commands. I find the split between
> ~/rpmbuild/{SPECS,SOURCES} anachronistic (*), and much prefer the
> fedpkg / distgit approach of having everything in one directory.
> I now usually use the single directory approach from the beginning:
> - git init new-package && cd new-pagkage
> - emacs new-package.spec &
> - spectool -g *spec
> - md5sum ... | tee sources
> - git add new-package.spec sources && git commit -m 'Initial version'
> - git remote add ssh://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/new-package.git
> - fedpkg --dist master {srpm,mockbuild,etc}
>
> Without the fake remote fedpkg fails. I am wondering if there is a way
> to achieve this in a simpler way, or if not, if it would be possible to
> modify fedpkg to support packages which are not part of Fedora out of the
> box. IMHO this would make the process easier and more consistent for
> new (or existing) contributors.
I use simillar workflow of creating new packages, but I have a shell
function which I use to init git repos for new packages.
# Usage: newpkg <name>
newpkg()
{
cd ~/newpkg
git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:mizdebsk/newpkg.git $1
cd ./$1
git push -u origin master:$1
touch $1.spec
git add $1.spec
}
After initializing new git repo this way all important fedpkg commands
should work, except for uploading sources. I simply don't bother
creating "sources" files as sources will need to be uploaded later
during import.
So my workflow is as simple as:
newpkg foo
emacs foo.spec
spectool -g *.spec
fedpkg --dist master srpm
mock ... foo*.src.rpm
fedpkg commit -c
git push
Pros:
1) workflow uses fedpkg, without rpmbuild or manual md5sum
2) no need to upload spec/srpm to fedorapeople for review - you can use
github and koji URLs, respectively, as seen in [1].
3) future co-maintainers can easily collaborate (open pull requests)
before the package is accepted
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242328
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Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk
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