On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:52 PM Thorsten Leemhuis <fed...@leemhuis.info> wrote: > > > On 14.04.21 10:45, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > > Good morning, I'd like to announce the creation of Fedora Source-git SIG: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Source-git > > > > Our main goal in the SIG right now is to establish a development > > workflow for Fedora Linux packages using repositories with sources and > > upstream history (this is what we call source-git), instead of just > > distribution files with links to tarballs (dist-git). > > Just wondering: will there be some coordination with the Fedora kernel > developers that are relying on a git based workflow since a few > weeks now (for rawhide even longer)? > > To those who don't know: all the stuff in dist-git kernel is > generated from https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark these days > afaik, so it might be wise to make sure the solution you work out works > for them as well. Especially as I find find some parts of how they do it > a bit questionable. The main tarball they use as Source0 for example > doesn't match the tarball downloadable from kernel.org(¹); all the > patches are stashed into one(²); patches for fedora specific stuff (like > the configs needed for building the kernel) are in the same branch as > the patches(³). I think that makes things quite confusing, especially > for outsiders. Sometimes I wonder if some of what the kernel people do > violates the Fedora Packaging Guidelines(⁴), but the kernel-ark people > ensured me it's fine. > > CU, knurd > > (¹) > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f33/f/sources for example > states: > > SHA512 (linux-5.11.14.tar.xz) = > > ccf0eaf6df0dacd2984c361621f67a3d16cf7a7174155ebdf646f1acfec43e19ff942e6c17e5bc3b5dc7a300c32bdc6ee37877162c099f5bd9924244f9445467 > But: > $ wget --quiet > https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.11.14.tar.xz > $ sha512sum linux-5.11.14.tar.xz > 8dfc7ff184e5cb33fff74686071f1605f3a834669e201d272f3047aa00657339ec1a3cfd605d8761b8a0f335b8488c02c701e72ed30031856e9c154aa1ff2d88 > linux-5.11.14.tar.xz > > > (²) > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f33/f/patch-5.11-redhat.patch > FWIW, links to the individual patches can be found here: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f33/f/Patchlist.changelog > > (³) for example > https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/commits/fedora-5.11 > > (⁴) like this part "sources used to build a package should be the > vanilla sources available from upstream. To help reviewers and QA > scripts verify this, the packager needs to indicate where a reviewer can > find the source that was used to make the rpm". The quote is from here: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/SourceURL/
Thorsten, thank you for pointing those out. I spoke with Don Zickus, one of the leads behind the kernel-ark project (or probably the lead :) and he confirmed to join the SIG. My hope is to create a platform that would unify all the different source-git implementations being used right now into one, which would have clear documentation, tooling and infra support. Dreaming big :) Tomas _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
