On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:54 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dear developers and Fedora contributors, > > let me introduce Copr: > > http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/ > > Copr is a build system for third party repositories. It is intended for: > * upstream teams - to make nightly and test builds > * layered applications - if you build on top of Fedora, but you are not > part of Fedora > * packages not yet ready to be included in official Fedora repositories > > How it works? You provide src.rpm, we will provide resulting yum repo for > RHEL 5,6 and Fedora 18, 19, 20... But see > WARNING on bottom of this mail. > > I prepared quick tutorial for you: > https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/ScreenshotsTutorial > and FAQ: > https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/UserDocs#FAQ > > Everybody with FAS account can build there. If you want to use command line > client, you should install copr-cli from > updates-testing. > > If you have ideas, questions, comments feel free to use one of our > communication channels > https://fedorahosted.org/copr/#Communications > (mailing list is prefered) > > WARNING: > Please do not rely on this service in production. This is very early release > (following "release early, release often"). > First of all, this service works in simple set-up, where resulting yum repos > are *not* backed up. Yet. This is not yet > officially part of Fedora infrastructure, so when Copr fails, it can take > several hours to be restored. > And yes, our WebUI is not perfect. It's work in progress. And since Copr can > build packages already, I decided to > publicly announce it, so you can experiment with it. > > We are working on Copr on full steam and in upcoming days you can expect: > * improvements in WebUI > * ability to build Software Collections there >
Miroslav, let me congratulate you and all the people working on Copr, this is an awesome tool that I have already used in the past for development. It makes developing changes to packages and letting other users test them very easy, thanks a lot! Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
