[Mageia-dev] Faster GNOME package submission

Tue Feb 28 15:00:15 CET 2012

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:23:27PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> Anyway, I've just tried this with a few packages. In future, I might
+> automatically even do:
+>   mgarepo ci -m "new version"
+>   mgarepo submit
+> But I want to first do more testing, plus add SHA256 verification (what
+> GNOME uses and advises).
+
+I've hooked up mga-gnome against the ftp-release-list emails[1].
+Whenever a tarball is placed upon ftp.gnome.org, the script will run
+and:
+- determine the package name
+  Note: Currently aborts if there are multiple possible packages.. e.g.
+  gtk+ tarball has gtk+2.0 and gtk+3.0 packages. Something to fix in a
+  future version.
+- validate version change
+  to preventing go from stable->unstable
+- increase version, reset release
+- download tarball
+- verify SHA256 hash and that patches still apply
+- commit changes
+- submit build
+
+Note that I just run this on my own machine. It requires manual work
+whenever I reboot (ssh public key), so not 100% reliable (on purpose).
+
+It'll submit stuff often before I'd have time to look at any build
+errors, so please look at any build error submitted be me :)
+
+
+[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+