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(Adding the Fedora OpenVPN package maintainer, Steven Pritchard, on Cc.) On 01/07/10 16:59, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:00:49PM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > >> - write packaging instructions to our Trac wiki >> (https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki) >> - convert the instructions into BuildBot code (BuildSteps) >> >> After this is done, we can provide the latest version of OpenVPN for >> various platforms with minimal manual effort. This helps developers as >> well as users: having the development code in wider circulation helps >> spot problems faster resulting in faster release cycle. > > I am a Fedora package maintainer, but not one of OpenVPN. I CC'ed them > in case they did not notice this. > > The Fedora package scripts are currently available here: > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/openvpn/devel/ > > In the not so far future this URL will not be valid, because Fedora > switches to git. > > Packages for Fedora are usually build within a chroot using a helper > tool called mock[0] and I do not know how well it works on other > distributions except Fedora or RHEL/CentOS. There are also scripts > developed to easily build new rpms from SCM and afaik currently only git > is supported (I do not know what OpenVPN currently uses, but I suspect > it's SVN): The openvpn-testing repository is git based, but the coming beta2.2 will be primarily SVN where the -testing repository will mirror the SVN branch. All community patches will go in to the SVN tree via the git tree. > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-packager/ticket/8 > > Adding support for SVN or other SCMs should not be that hard. I will try > to write something up how to put all this together to easily build new > OpenVPN Packages for Fedora using a SCM checkout. As the building in this context is mostly oriented around the -testing tree, I think you don't need to think too much about SVN support now. The git support should be sufficient. We're looking for a way how to provide openvpn-testing packages for a vast majority of distributions and OSes, to check that it compiles well and to provide binaries for those wanting to be experimental. But, I do see one big advantage of building packages via Koji (Fedora's building system which uses mock), if possible. That will put these packages into a yum repository almost instantly, which can be useful to make the packages more easily available. Steven: I'd like to hear your thoughts on this as well! kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwssoAACgkQDC186MBRfrq6uwCdFCtKQQWKoHG5PxouIqkZZvaK Si4An0uK61otB9SuPRiGKKRRY5imId3y =eMvc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
