On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:12:37PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 07/16/2015 12:37 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:14:17PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >> On 07/16/2015 11:53 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >>> One thing which I find very annoying when creating new packages is the
> >>> need to use bare rpmbuild commands. I find the split between
> >>> ~/rpmbuild/{SPECS,SOURCES} anachronistic (*), and much prefer the
> >>> fedpkg / distgit approach of having everything in one directory.
> >>> I now usually use the single directory approach from the beginning:
> >>> - git init new-package && cd new-pagkage
> >>> - emacs new-package.spec &
> >>> - spectool -g *spec
> >>> - md5sum ... | tee sources
> >>> - git add new-package.spec sources && git commit -m 'Initial version'
> >>> - git remote add ssh://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/new-package.git
> >>> - fedpkg --dist master {srpm,mockbuild,etc}
> >>>
> >>> Without the fake remote fedpkg fails. I am wondering if there is a way
> >>> to achieve this in a simpler way, or if not, if it would be possible to
> >>> modify fedpkg to support packages which are not part of Fedora out of the
> >>> box. IMHO this would make the process easier and more consistent for
> >>> new (or existing) contributors.
> >>>
> >>> Zbyszek
> >>
> >> If I skip creating sources and the git remote add, everything seems to work
> >> fine for me with "--dist f21" instead of "--dist master"
> > True, sources don't seem to be necessary. There's a warning but it can be
> > ignored.
> >
> > Guidelines (and common sense) suggest using rawhide for builds. So adding
> > the
> > remote still seems to be necessary.
> >
> > Zbyszek
>
> Well, if you know what "rawhide" is, you can just use that, i.e. f24 at the
> moment.
Ah, OK, that works.
Zbyszek
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