On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 22:04, James Szinger <jszin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:05:40 -0500 > Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Enable_Spec_File_Preprocessing > > > > == Summary == > > This change should enable an opt-in spec file preprocessor in Fedora > > infrastructure for the benefit of packagers. The preprocessor allows > > some very neat tricks that were impossible before, for example > > generate changelog and release automatically from git metadata or pack > > the entire dist-git repository into an rpm-source tarball (effectively > > allowing unpacked repos to live in DistGit). > > > > == User Experience == > > This change is intended for packagers. It should help to make a bit of > > their work easier and offer them some new interesting options. > > This change proposal does affect users. The User Experience section > needs to answer the following:
Well, the users here are still packagers here no? I thought the "User" in the title means "end user" who shouldn't be affected by it. Maybe Ben can clarify this. > > 1. How does this affect users who download, maybe modify, and rebuild > the SRPM? Can they continue to use rpmbuid and mock as they have > been? Does the SRPM contain the pre-processed or post-processed spec > file? They can use mock if the preprocessing will be enabled for the respective chroots where it is enabled in Koji/Fedora. They can't directly use rpmbuild for those packages that contain the macros. But they can use rpkg/fedpkg to do the work. Or preprocess spec first and then use rpmbuild. I am aware this is a negative point of this change. While having an option to use rpmbuild directly to build srpm/rpm from a dist-git repo is nice, I would say that fedpkg or mock are the main interfaces to do this. I know this answer won't satisfy everyone. > > 2. How does this affect users who download the spec file from > src.fedoraproject.org? Do they have the tools to build the RPM? How > much harder is it? The tools will be available. It should be no-work if a person uses fedpkg or mock. Otherwise, if they really use bare rpmbuild, they will need to modify their scripts to use fedpkg/mock. Or they can use preproc first to render the template and then pass it to rpmbuild. I also planned to do a simple wrapper called '"preproc-rpmbuild" which would do that while otherwise providing the same command-line interface as rpmbuild does. > > Please remember that this is Free Software and the spec files are > useful for a broader audience than just the Fedora packagers. Right, we also use the (CentOS) spec files in a company where I currently work at. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
