[Mageia-dev] automagically submitting correctly

Wed Feb 23 00:07:59 CET 2011

On 23.2.2011 00:54, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> I've been thinking on submission (since i'm a novice packager, i have no good
+> experience with this, so i ended up talking to my mentor on submission stuff).
+>
+> So i was thinking:
+> .spec files are used to tell the buildbot how to build and package an srpm.
+>
+> why don't we have a similar way to do submission? (or even include this in
+> spec file?)
+>
+> the things is, i want something that should work in most, if not all cases,
+> but still be simple.
+>
+> what would be interesting:
+>   * submission parameters: ie: where to put rpm (core, tainted, non-free)
+
+
+Not really needed, as it's only the first time you submit a package you 
+need to specify repo, after that the bs knows where to put it...
+
+
+>
+> or nice to have:
+>   * make this also work multiple times, for packages that are submitted
+> multiple times (think about tainted stuff, that is rebuilt with extra %define),
+> and still have only one srpm.
+
+
+this could be set by default in a separate rebuild bot for tainted repos
+
+
+>   * bootstrapping options? some way to have %defines that disable some stuff for
+> bootstrapping (or even cyclic builddependencies in certain pacakages)
+>
+> in short, the idea is to have:
+> 1. X, that is simple, elegant and works for all cases
+> 2. stuff happens
+> 3. profit :-P
+>
+> or to make it easier on packagers (and possibly reduce errors in wrong
+> submission), so that just "mgarepo submit<package>" would automagically work
+> correctly.
+>
+
+That only work if the packager sets the tags correctly...
+
+--
+Thomas
+