[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

Tue Feb 8 16:05:10 CET 2011

hi,
+
+i'm happy to announce magpie 1.110390
+
+On 11/01/24 16:42 +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> in my mdv->mageia conversion, i promised to gather the various scripts
+> i'm using to maintain the bulk of perl packages and provide them for
+> everyone to use.
+> 
+> so i'm pleased to announce magpie: MAGeia Perl Integration Easy
+> 
+> it's available as a perl distribution on cpan (of course), and as a
+> package for mageia (i know, mirroring is not yet started).
+
+this release brings a new subcommand: magpie fixspec
+
+as you can guess, this command will try to sanitize a spec file a bit.
+to use it, you must be in a package checkout, and run it without any
+argument.
+
+    $ eval $( magpie co perl-Foo-Bar )
+    $ magpie fixspec -v
+
+    # to see the list of options
+    $ magpie help fix
+
+
+among the things done:
+- it updates %doc depending on the existing files, including meta files
+- it splits multiple bundled build-/requires to have only one per line
+- it lines up vertically the summary / etc
+- it extracts perl buildrequires from meta.json/meta.yml if present
+- it removes buildroot definition
+- it removes mdv macros
+
+
+note that the code is not really clean, it might gain from being in its
+own module, with real rpm parsing instead of big regexes. also, it
+assumes that we're cleaning a perl module spec file, so you're on your
+own if you're using it on other spec file: it might remove the whole
+svn, eat your babies, or even convert your rpm database to rpm5. you've
+been warned. :-)
+
+
+jérôme 
+-- 
+jquelin at gmail.com
+