Re: packaging work is becoming increasingly cumbersome

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W dniu 01.02.2017 o 00:19, Kevin Fenzi pisze:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:26:29 +0100
> Julian Sikorski <belegdol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have been co-maintaining goffice and gnumeric for a while now. It
>> has been unfortunately becoming increasingly difficult over time,
>> given the fact that the two often need to be chain-built and tools
>> needed to do this have been slowly becoming more time-consuming to
>> use, in addition to some other issues. For example:
>>
>> - requesting buildroot overrides via commandline has been broken for
>> over than a year now and will not be fixed until f26 [1]. Web
>> interface is much slower.
> 
> Well, there's some other options there in the last comment. 
> 
>> - chain-building has been broken for a month [2] so now requesting
>> each build in the chain separately is required
> 
> I just did a ping on that issue. Hopefully we can get a new release out
> with the fix soon. I know rdieter made a local patch he's been using
> fine, so this really should not be that hard to push out. 

Thank you!

> 
>> - fedpkg now needs authentication via kerberos instead of ssh key [3],
>> which means that I now have to run kinit before starting a packaging
>> session, in addition to firing up keepass and entering the password
> 
> Yeah. This will hopefully be helped by the upcoming kerberos cache
> change. 

Sounds good, hopefully it will be rolled out soon!

> 
>> - koji login via certificate is no longer possible which makes it
>> harder to track failed builds
> 
> We plan to make koji handle GSSAPI and log you in automatically if you
> have a kerberos ticket. I'll try and find out the status of that work. 

Thanks!

> 
>> While I am sure these changes are done with an aim of improving things
>> in the long run, the churn caused by them is really starting to take a
>> toll on my motivation. Could something be done to mitigate the
>> inconveniences caused by the infrastructure upgrades?
> 
> We can try.
> 
> kevin
> 
> 
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