----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabien Boucher" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 11:00:55 AM
> Subject: [Softwarefactory-dev] CI/Release workflow for a RPM packaged version 
> of SF
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking about it since yesterday so and I wanted to share my thoughts
> here.
> 
> The idea is to have a sf-master target in Koji which is a "pot commun" where
> all
> packages built during the CI will land. We need to have a magic tool that
> know
> how to manage rpm(s) build/runtime dependencies according to the ZUUL_CHANGES
> variables passed by Zuul.
> 
> Each build of a rpm need to have the Software commit hash (for the ones we
> host and dev
> on Gerrit) and the tag (for the other ones like Gerrit, Storyboard). Also I'm
> thinking of a meta package called sf-<version>.rpm that contains all the
> mandatories dependencies.
> 
> For example:
> * sf-3.0.0-1.rpm - depends on:
> ** managesf-<hash>-1.rpm
> ** managesf-ansible-<hash>-1.rpm
> ** sf-ansible-<hash>-1.rpm
> ** gerrit-2.X.X-1.rpm
> ** gerrit-ansible-0.1-1.rpm
> ** sf-docs-3.0.0-1.rpm
> 
> This meta package is then the entry point to install SF and its mandatory
> dependencies.
> (Maybe it should also include a file with the list of extra component (such
> repoxplorer, ...)
> at the exact versions supported by this release of SF). We can even imagine
> it contains
> our reno notes. In this version of "dreamland" the SF Git repository should
> only
> contains the "(template) ?" .spec of this meta package.
> 
> In the CI the meta package .spec file is modified according the build
> context. For
> example managesf is in the ZUUL_CHANGES then this meta package will be
> rebuilt to pin
> the freshly built version of managesf.
> But doing that at this meta package level is not enough. For instance pysflib
> is
> modified then the managesf's build/runtime rpm deps need to changed to pin
> the
> pysflib version.
> 
> Here could be the resulting workflow of the CI to test an incoming change in
> the SF CI:
> We bump Gerrit:
> 1 -> A change in the gerrit-distgit repo is proposed
> 2 -> First Gerrit is built on koji (non-scratch) build and land in the "pot
> commun"
> 3 -> The meta package is rebuild and pin the new version of Gerrit
> 4 -> The NVR of the meta package can maybe an epoch or the ZUUL_UUID ?
> 5 -> The SF image is built/or updated (if a previous on exist on the
>      slave - Then having the epoch make sense) using the "pot commun" koji
>      repo
>      in /etc/yum.repo.d.
> 6 -> Test the SF image as usual
> 7 -> If a success (in the gate) the gerrit-distgit proposed changed lands in
> the
>      Git repo.

As you mentioned above, how do you deal with dependencies between components ?
I'm thinking of a common use case whenever we add smth in the manageSF API, we
usually have to change the manageSF config template in SF; both changes land
semi-simultaneously. Thus our packaging workflow should be aware of depends-on
tags to reflect that dependency in the build.

> Building a master SF for our test env could be then : only install the "pot
> commun"
> repo in yum.repo.d and yum install sf[-<epoch>]. Note that as the meta
> package sf use the epoch
> as NVR so theoretically you could just yum install sf from the "pot commum"
> but as
> in the flow I described the meta package sf is built for each patchset then
> we won't
> have the guarantie the latest sf-<epoch>.rpm is a working version of SF :(.
> 
> Working on a dev env (let's say on managesf again) could be then as follow:
> -> Make you change locally in managesf source repo
> -> Build the SRPM
> -> Send it to koji (in scratch or non scratch) whatever

Could the rpm building be done locally on the dev env, with a local dev repo?
Might be faster and easier.

> -> Fetch the artifacts
> -> and install them in the devel SF

Wouldn't that be broken if dependencies versions are pinned ? ie you can't
install a newer version of this package because of dep pinning.

> -> When your are satisfied with your changes -> propose them
>    on Gerrit and the CI will re-test your changes as usual.

> Additional note : We want to be sure at any time that all master branch
> of each repo[-distgit] that are part of the SF distribution are working
> together (pass the SF tests).
> 
> What about the SF release ? Let's say now we want to release sf-3.0.0.
> Then we will tag (in the koji terminology)
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji#Package_Organization
> a specific list of built packages. We tag them with the tag name sf-3.0.0. We
> do
> the same when we want to release sf-3.0.1 and so on.
> So each stable release of the SF (Distribution) will have its own RPM repo.
> -> I'm not sure about that and need to be experimented ...
> 
> Let's discuss about that and raise questions and issues.
> I propose also to setup a semi-official Koji for our needs and we could start
> using it
> to experiment.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabien
> 
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