On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:12:07AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
With the koji upgrade on the weekend support was deployed for
external repos.
this enables building of EPEL in koji. I have set up some tags and targets for
doing EPEL scratch builds. right now you can scratch build to dist-5E-epel
and dist-4E-epel. there is an issue i need to work around with EL-4 the old
hack we used to provide a kernel to ppc doesnt work. I am working on a
solution to that.
For those of us who are weekend packagers and not super familiar with
Koji, it'd be helpful to see an example or two of how I can test build
some of my packages against these new targets. Can I do this with
arguments to 'make' or do I need to call the koji cli client directly?
To move building to koji we need to get bodhi setup and redo the release
engineering process to closely match that of Fedora. What this means is that
you will need to file a ticket with releng to have a package added to the
buildroot if you need to build against it. it also means that things can
hit stable sooner.
Ideally id like to make the change quickly and transparently. Right now im
aiming to do it on a saturday in march. it will mean that we take plague
downa nd disable builds in koji. we need to import epel into koji at that
point in time. once everthing is imported and tagged, building can be enabled.
All developers at that point in time will need to update there common
checkouts to be able to build.
This email is intended to start discussion on the migration and allow people
to bring up any concerns that they have.
Ray