Brief (and early) ode to fedpkg

[Jesse Keating]

On 1/24/11 12:35 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:21 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Fedpkg has consolidated Fedora's common stuff into its code, so all
>> you need is a git checkout with a spec file and some patches right
>> there. And it'll build your stuff, locally, via koji, whatever.
>>
>> Real Nice.
>
> Yeah, fedpkg&  git are the best things that happened to Fedora in many
> years...

Thanks!

> I just wish we could get rid of the redundant changelog in the
> spec file.

That's a bit of a struggle, as there are times when you want something 
in the scm changelog that isn't really appropriate for the rpm 
changelog, like fixing a typo in the specfile between build attempts. 
We do provide the clog facility so that one can re-use the spec 
changelog for the SCM changelog when appropriate.  I've also explored a 
bit using a %include directive to include contents from a changelog 
file, one that might be auto-generated from source control, but I didn't 
go very far with it.

Basically I view the scm changelog as data that is relevant and 
important to your fellow maintainers, where as the rpm changelog is data 
that is relevant and important to the rpm consumers.  While there is 
some overlap, they are not the same consumers.

>
> Oh, and the ability to push builds to bohdi while sitting comfortably in
> our shell sessions would also be great.
>

As another has mentioned, there is an "update" target for fedpkg.  Luke 
Macken ported the code that was in the Make system in CVS.  I believe it 
still has some rough edges but should work.  If there is something 
deficient there, please to file a ticket and we'll look at improving it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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