[OM Cooker] Any idea when Cooker --auto-update will work again?

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer bero at lindev.ch
Tue Apr 26 18:16:38 EDT 2016


On 2016-04-26 22:57, Ben Bullard wrote:

> I would like to help Bero or you building rpms.

Thanks, that's great news, we can always use more people in that area.

> How do I do this? Where should I start on this?

I think people have already posted ABF documentation - do you know how 
to write and edit spec files?
If not, the tools in the packaging-tools package may be a good start. 
(urpmi packaging-tools ; man vs)

> When you or Bero or anyone is going through building a large group of 
> packages like KDE/Plasma5 there must be a
> way someone like me could do some of the rudimentary tasks while at the 
> same time I'm learning to do more.

If things go well, updating KDE/Plasma5 and a few other things that are 
always released at the same time is an almost completely automated task 
these days.
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware/kde-packaging-tools.git

Unfortunately the 16.04.0 update is not at all packager friendly - 
they've decided to split kdepim into some 50 smaller packages, so all 
the new specs had to be written and the old ones required some heavy 
lifting. To top it off, some of the packages we've had before weren't in 
their best shape (listing wrong download locations etc.), causing a 
number of builds to fail even where the package already existed.

I'm near the end of the list now, so things should start showing up in 
cooker soon (the update scripts only start throwing stuff at abf after 
ALL local builds have succeeded).

ttyl
bero



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