On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:21:41AM +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Tue, 2020-01-28 at 10:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > * committing to git should build the package > > > > Is there a reason why this wouldn't be the case? > > Hi, > the answer for the above is just your following point: > > > * commit groups of packages together > > aka the dependencies. Sometimes you want a special side tag, sometimes > it's not needed. The way I do it right now (it's only about 4 packages > depending on each other, not hundreds), is that I commit to master, > then to stable, then the second package to master, to stable, then > third and finally to the fourth and then I ran a chain-build as this: > "a : b : c " in package 'd', (which builds 'c' and 'd' in parallel, > once 'a' and 'b' are built in serial). Then I just refresh the koji > build page from time to time and verify that the build still runs > and/.or it finished successfully. I can run chain-build in stable too, > it only needs a bit more intervention, to define overrides for 'a' and > 'b' in bodhi, to be able to build them. > > I'm afraid fully automating such things might be a challenge. In other > words, properly solving dependencies is problematic. Having yet another > syntax to describe it, or the groups you suggest, scares me a bit. And > we are not talking about inter-package dependencies, with packages you > are not maintaining. This is not a problem - it has been solved several times independently. I most recently proposed this, but it's certainly isn't the first time it has been done: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/goals-an-experimental-new-tool-which-generalizes-make/ http://git.annexia.org/?p=fedora-ocaml-rebuild.git;a=summary What we need is Fedora to recognize that maintaining 100s of packages mostly automatically should be a goal. If you look at the ecosystems around language packaging (cpan, nodejs, crates, opam, etc) this ought to be self-evident. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
