New release of Copr

Miroslav Suchý msuchy at redhat.com
Wed Dec 11 16:50:59 UTC 2013


New release of Copr is available at:
   http://copr.fedoraproject.org

It has:

* nicer URL - http://copr.fedoraproject.org/ which is alias for http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/

* extended API. See:
   http://copr.fedoraproject.org/api/

* faster builds - previously builds for various chroots was serialized; they run in parallel now.

* monitor of builds - for better overview. See:
   https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/ScreenshotsTutorial#monitor

* Support for Software collections - you can specify which packages should be always present in buildroot. For software 
collections you need to have there: "scl-utils-build" and meta package (i.e "name_of_collection-build"). See:
   https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/ScreenshotsTutorial#chroot

* you can use markdown syntax in description of project now

* use of additional repos actually works now

* you can use non standard macros %{copr_username} and %{copr_projectname} in your spec files if you want.

* Tito have support for Copr now (man releasers.conf for more info)

-- 
Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys


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