[Mageia-dev] automagically submitting correctly

[Thomas Backlund]

On 23.2.2011 00:54, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> 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)


Not really needed, as it's only the first time you submit a package you 
need to specify repo, after that the bs knows where to put it...


>
> 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.


this could be set by default in a separate rebuild bot for tainted repos


>   * 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.
>

That only work if the packager sets the tags correctly...

--
Thomas