Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

[clime]

On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 18:59, Ken Dreyer  wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:51 PM Petr Pisar  wrote:
> > How do you backport fixes? Do apply the fixes directly to dist-git? Or do you
> > apply the fixes to a corresponding patches branch that you occur to have
> > around till needed (e.g. till the hitorical code is supported) for the purpose
> > of backporting?
>
> It's the latter. We use "git cherry-pick" to pick changes to our
> "patches" branch, and then "rdopkg patch" writes those as .patch files
> and PatchXXX entries in our .spec file in the corresponding dist-git
> branch.

Ken, would it be, please, possible to provide links to the patch
branches and mentioned dist-git repos. I would like to have a closer
look.

Thanks
clime
> At a general level, a typical Fedora packager performs three kinds of
> operations in dist-git:
>
> Rebasing to a new upstream version (eg. bumping the "Version" field
> in httpd.spec from 2.4.43 to 2.4.44)
>
> Fixing something in RPM packaging itself (eg. removing "Groups"
> from httpd.spec file, fixing %check, etc)
>
> Patching the source code (eg. cherry-picking a patch from
> upstream).
>
> The current implementation of dist-git allows everyone and anyone to
> very clearly audit all three of these actions. This kind of
> transparency is really important to Fedora's goal of building a
> trusted operating system.
>
> Upstream projects do ninja edits all the time. It's just too
> convenient to force-push or move Git tags, etc. Sometimes upstream
> authors have valid reasons for doing that kind of thing, but
> downstream we have different incentives. The fact that we have strong
> history preservation guarantees is one of the reasons I use Fedora.
>
> rdopkg has sub-commands to automate each of the three categories
> above. For #3 (patching), in RH Ceph Storage we run the "rdopkg patch"
> operations in Jenkins, because that is the most common operation by
> far.
>
> I'm watching packit, and I am interested to try it out one day to
> understand more about how it compares. I'm still not clear from this
> thread what source-git is, or how it compares technically to what
> we're doing with Ceph and OpenStack.
> Ken
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