Re: RFC: make $releasever return "rawhide" on Rawhide

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On 08/03/2018 02:11 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Dne 31.7.2018 v 15:04 Kamil Paral napsal(a):
>>> In short, package managers on Rawhide would no longer replace
>> $releasever variable with a numerical value (like '29' at
>>> this moment, soon '30'), but with 'rawhide' string instead. I hope this
>> change will make life a bit easier for
>>> third-party repos maintainers, for users, for developers and sysadmins,
>> and for release engineering. The technical
>>> implementation can be seen in the ticket (it's the 'Proposed solution
>> 1'), together with a long discussion.
>>
>> Just note that fedora-rawhide.repo has:
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
>>
>> Which now points to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-29-x86_64 (on
>> x86_64 machine).
>>
>> So either this file need to be renamed to RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide-x86_64
>> and updated on every branching or symlink
>> need to be provided.
>>
> 
> Interesting, this is something Kevin mentioned during the releng meeting,
> which I didn't completely get:
> 
> 17:09:15 <nirik> also would fix a long standing issue around moving to
> rawhide from a stable relase and gpg key...17:09:35 <nirik> because
> the gpg key file is called 'whatever-rawhide'  not 'whatever-29'
> 
> 
> It seems he was mistaken then?
> 
> But yes, the files would have to be renamed, thanks for a reminder.

Yeah, we finally did change it... for a long time it was rawhide which
confused people who passed the number.

Likely here we want a link from "rawhide" to the current number and
change that at each branching.

kevin


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