[Mageia-dev] How to push new packages to Mageia 1 updates_testing

[Samuel Verschelde]

Hi,

I wanted to share the method I use when I need to push a new package (new =
missing from Mageia 1) from cauldron to Mageia 1 updates. This concerns only
packages available in Mandriva 2010.2 but absent from Mageia 1.

I'm sharing for 2 reasons :
- maybe I'm doing it wrong, so you can comment and maybe give me better instructions
- it can be of use, the way I do it or the way I will be told to do :)

Here is my procedure :

svn cp svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/PACKAGENAME svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/updates/1/PACKAGENAME 
(with comment "Add PACKAGENAME to Mageia 1")
svn mkdir svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/binrepos/updates/1/putty
(with comment "Add PACKAGENAME")
mgarepo co 1/PACKAGENAME
cd PACKAGENAME
cp PATH_TO_BINARY_SOURCE_FILES_IN_CAULDRON SOURCES/
mgarepo sync -c #uploads the source files to binrepo
vi SPECS/PACKAGENAME.spec #update release and add subrel
mgarepo submit -t 1 --define section=core/updates_testing

For release and subrel, usually a new package would have release 0 and subrel
1, but to allow migration from mandriva, I set a higher release that in
mandriva 2010.2 if the version is the same, + subrel 1, then increase it in cauldron too so
that it's higher than in Mageia 1.

I do that to be safe : the point of subrel is to be increased without any risk
of the package becoming not upgradable to the version in the n+1 distribution.
If cauldron has release 5.mga2 and updates has 5.mga1, it looks safe, but as
soon as we'll fix a bug in mga1, release will become 5.1.mga1 which is higher
than 5.mga2. That's why, for security, I would set the release in cauldron to
6.mga2 so that we can increase the subrel at will in mga1. 

Comments ?

Samuel Verschelde