On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 4:16:34 PM CEST Pavel Raiskup wrote: > On Monday, July 6, 2020 10:19:31 AM CEST Adam Saleh wrote: > > Piere (a.k.a Pingou), Nils and me worked on Rpmautospec [1] to solve this > > problem few months ago. > > It is a koji plugin as well as CLI tool that makes bumping the release > > field and generating changelog problem of Koji, > > instead of package-maintainer. Currently it sits deployed in staging koji, > > so you can give it a test-drive :-) > > > > We hope we can return to it later this year, to have it deployed in prod > > koji. > > +1 to what Florian proposes over rpmautospec, though. I think bumping the > release flag is the bare minimal technical change that is needed (except that > bodhi should pre-fill the description by diffs from %changelogs).
Small experiment (few-liner) for copr with "%bid, build system tag": https://pagure.io/copr/copr/pull-request/1436 Pavel > I before stated my opinion that I don't like the generated %changelog > idea. Fedora git changelog and `rpm --changelog` are two different > things. Mixing them up will bring more costs than savings (fixing > mistakes in git commit messages retrospectively). Or in other extreme the > ugly `rpm --changelog` output (people don't care they mistakenly provided > broken git commit message). > > I think that it would be just enough to allow people to stop producing > `rpm --changelog`s if they think that it so awful amount of work (both > better than more expensive %changelog variant, or ugly variant). Let's > allow packagers to specify something like: > > %changelog > * there's no package metadata in changelog > > Or in the worst case, automatize: > > * there's no package metadata in changelog > - check %_pkgdocdir/fedora-git-changelog file > > I'm not saying that we can not see every proposed approach in action as > opt-in. But, IMVHO, we are wasting to much efforts time here that could > be spent on our content served to our users instead (== I mean the overall > %changelog quality). > > Pavel > > > [1] https://docs.pagure.org/Fedora-Infra.rpmautospec/principle.html > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:22 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > * Björn Persson: > > > > > > > The macro could be defined like this for example: > > > > > > > > %buildtag .%(date +%%s) > > > > > > Using time for synchronization is always a bit iffy. > > > > > > > It would be used in each spec like this: > > > > > > > > Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag} > > > > > > We could put the Koji task ID directly into the %dist tag. We know that > > > this works in principle. If we are worried that the number gets too > > > large, we could subtract the current task ID at the time the fcNN part > > > of the %dist tag changes. > > > > > > The %dist tag is not recorded in the changelog by most packages, so the > > > changelog does not need changing. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Florian > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
