[Mageia-dev] automagically submitting correctly

[Maarten Vanraes]

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)

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.
 * 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.

i think this idea would be usefull if it was not too complex, unfortunately i 
have no solid concrete ideas about this.

but perhaps someone else has any good suggestions about this?