[Mageia-dev] Packager meetings for tonight

Mon Feb 7 13:53:38 CET 2011

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:08, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 3 February 2011 17:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>>> So as discussed tonight ( but if you couldn't be present at the meeting,
+>>> do not hesitate to express yourself now ), we proposed to have some
+>>> order in the import of rpm ( ie avoid the resulting anarchy due to lack
+>>> of process for bootstrap ).
+>>>
+>>> In order to start by something tangible and easy to manage, let's take a
+>>> concrete case. The sysadmin team discussed to use mageia on the servers
+>>> ( once the stable release is out ie, not now ) for obvious reasons of
+>>> dogfooding. But for this, we will have to import the needed rpms. I
+>>> extracted from puppet logs the lists of rpm, and I have a list of the
+>>> major component needed.
+>>>
+>>> The rule would be to take 1 and only 1 rpm ( or family ) at the time, to
+>>> make sure it work fine ( ie, compile for the moment, and also install ),
+>>> to make sure the package is cleaned ( ie, patchs sent upstream,
+>>> commented, etc ), and to make sure that everybody can find something to
+>>> do.
+>>>
+>>> And that of course requires to do the same for missing BuildRequires,
+>>> and Requires ( but since lots of rpm have been imported without being
+>>> fully cleaned, and since there is now a fast web interface for svn,
+>>> people have no excuse to not check ).
+>>>
+>>> I will place the list on the wiki tomorrow, and people wishing to work
+>>> on importing a rpm should add their name/login/whatever after the rpm,
+>>> and then to work on it. If there is already someone working on a rpm,
+>>> just take another one, or try to work with this person.
+>>
+>> So it seems that my list of 20 rpms is now much lower than needed, as
+>> most servers applications needed have been imported.
+>>
+>> The only thing left are :
+>
+> What would really help us is the list of actually successfully build
+> package rather than
+>  the list of submitted packages that we previously have on pkgsubmit.mga.org
+> It has been replaced by the list of missing BR for currently submited packages
+> (http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt) but having the list
+> of succesfully rebuild packages would help too.
+
+OK, I removed the list of built one when removing the (empty) list of
+missing one to get rid of the ugly temporary code
+I can add it back until having something better... Or maybe add the
+generation of those lists to the script run every 15 minutes that
+lists missing deps.
+