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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 17 July 2011 23:43, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> 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")

'svn mkdir' step is redundant, 'mgarepo sync -c' will automatically
create the binrepos/updates/1/$pkg-name.

> 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
>



-- 
Ahmad Samir