[Mageia-dev] Build tool idea

Fri Feb 1 01:15:16 CET 2013

Before I reinvent the wheel....
+
+There was a request for peazip, and what I'm thinking about doing is
+to write a script
+called "repobuild".  This script would pull the .spec and source files
+from mgarepo
+and then build and install an RPM package.
+
+The use case for this is:
+
+1) so that people who have a Mageia 3 install, can do beta testing on
+a few packages
+without messing up their current installation.  (i.e. if you want a
+cinnamon environment
+now)
+2) so that we can keep doing development while we are in the middle of
+a release freeze
+3) so that people can get packages from cauldron without waiting for a
+release cycle.  If
+they are full beta testers they'd install cauldron, but the people
+that I'm thinking of would
+just want to run one or two new packages on top of the latest Mageia
+4) so that there is an easy way of doing a rollback if cauldron breaks something
+
+Now before I start on this, is there any wheel reinvention here.  I'm
+looking to just wrap
+mageia repo, so that someone can do
+
+   sudo repoinstall peazip
+
+and then come back in a few hours, and have peazip there.
+