Dear Fedora Developers,
So recently I found myself desiring to update a .spec file for a
snapshot of a git tree in an automated fashion. As you may or may not
know, this actually has a surprising number of flaming hoops through
which you must jump.
The first one, when scripting such a thing, is
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:03:49AM +, Colin Walters wrote:
> So recently I found myself desiring to update a .spec file for a
> snapshot of a git tree in an automated fashion. As you may or may not
> know, this actually has a surprising number of flaming hoops through
> which you must jump.
>
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Till Maas wrote:
>
> Thanks, this looks useful. I will try to use them, too. From their
> description they should be helpful to just check whether the current
> SPEC would still build the current upstream SCM version.
Yeah, the basic idea is that they modify the .
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 06:39:11PM +, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, this looks useful. I will try to use them, too. From their
> > description they should be helpful to just check whether the current
> > SPEC would still build the curr
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Till Maas wrote:
>
> Here is my first feature request: please make the fedora buildsys
> specific items optional, e.g. if there is no sources file, then just
> skip all the CVS etc. stuff, but only fetch the tarball and update the
> spec. This would make it possible
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> > Also a link to an example spec would be helpful.
>
> For just the #VCS key? Let me instead write up a formal proposal:
It helps to have something that is supposed to work to ge
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> > Also a link to an example spec would be helpful.
The fedora-easy-karma.spec now uses this, so in case anyone else is
interested to test it, it can be used.
But I needed some patc
