Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:26 PM kevin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:57:34PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matthew Miller > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > > That makes it extra steps to see changelogs

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-25 Thread kevin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:57:34PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > That makes it extra steps to see changelogs on a not-installed package. > > > I do sometimes do "rpm -q

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > That makes it extra steps to see changelogs on a not-installed package. > > I do sometimes do "rpm -q --changelog -p foo.rpm" or "dnf changelog foo" > > (for example, to see

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > That makes it extra steps to see changelogs on a not-installed package. > I do sometimes do "rpm -q --changelog -p foo.rpm" or "dnf changelog foo" > (for example, to see what is changed since my installed version). > Converting to an

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-23 Thread Björn Persson
Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put an > > additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]: > > > > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}" > > > > ... and let the

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 17:04 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:30:18PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 10:46 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > > > Release tag problem/proposal

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:30:18PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 10:46 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > > Release tag problem/proposal > > > > > > > > > Let's stop requiring

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 10:46 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > Release tag problem/proposal > > > > > > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put > > an > > additional tag into

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:57:32 AM CEST Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 13. 08. 20 15:08, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > I hope I marked the results public so the > > results are visible to anyone. > > I could see the results when I've submitted the form, but I no longer know > how > to get to them.

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
Disclaimer: I'm part of the team who worked on rpmautospec, i.e. I'm obviously biased and will view everything through that lens. ;) On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 15:08 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Release tag problem/proposal > > > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 10:54, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: [...] > I think the value of the %changelog for debugging problems on a host > is overstated in general though. In most cases I find the entries are > just too terse to be useful, especially when you have packages where > the only

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:46:48AM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > Questionnaire right at the beginning, so if you tl;dr, you don't miss it: > > > > https://forms.gle/Jgr13vtRkiUwLb6W6 > > > > This is no change proposal

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-19 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Questionnaire right at the beginning, so if you tl;dr, you don't miss it: > > https://forms.gle/Jgr13vtRkiUwLb6W6 > > This is no change proposal but rather a result of my long-term curiosity > around the $Subject problem. I

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-18 Thread Björn Persson
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put an > > additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]: > > > > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}" > > Can I ask why this

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 13. 08. 20 15:08, Pavel Raiskup wrote: I hope I marked the results public so the results are visible to anyone. I could see the results when I've submitted the form, but I no longer know how to get to them. Can you share the link please? -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC:

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put an > additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]: > > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}" Can I ask why this wouldn't be: Release: 1%{?buildtag}%{?dist} ?

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-16 Thread Björn Persson
Till Maas wrote: > what about other special cases when using 0.1 for the release to > indicate pre-releases or git IDs for snapshots. How would that look > like with your proposal? None of that needs to change just because a buildtag is appended. Whenever the source code changes in any way, one

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-14 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 13.08.2020 15:08, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}" I have a better solution - automatically bump Release on every official build. Additional tags are not good. > %changelog > * This package doesn't provide changelog metadata, check it online >

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-14 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Release tag problem/proposal > > > Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's put an > additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]: > > "Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}" >

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > Such %changelog has a very similar level of quality as all the generated > > approaches, and we don't have to complicate our lives (or buildsystem). > > Alternatively, we can teach build

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Such %changelog has a very similar level of quality as all the generated > approaches, and we don't have to complicate our lives (or buildsystem). > Alternatively, we can teach build systems to upload the git-log file > somewhere, or

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-13 Thread Björn Persson
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Questionnaire right at the beginning, so if you tl;dr, you don't miss it: > > https://forms.gle/Jgr13vtRkiUwLb6W6 The questionnaire itself is short, but understanding all the proposals is considerable work. That's where TL;DR will happen. > Let's stop requiring

What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-13 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Questionnaire right at the beginning, so if you tl;dr, you don't miss it: https://forms.gle/Jgr13vtRkiUwLb6W6 This is no change proposal but rather a result of my long-term curiosity around the $Subject problem. I hope I marked the results public so the results are visible to anyone.