Hello,
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:57 PM, Michal Novotny <clime(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 03:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:02:10PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems that a lot of people have %file, %check, %build, %whatsoever
>>>> in their changelog section.
>>>> Is there any reason I should not go and automatically escape them?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This seems like a lot of churn. If we're going to do this, let's go
big
>>> and get rid of RPM changelogs.
>>>
>>> When we have a package update, there are basically two different kinds
>>> of changelog information. Well, three.
>>>
>>> First, there's the upstream changelog. We don't generally do much
with
>>> these except maybe package as %doc.
>>>
>>> Second, there's package maintainer changelogs. These are really
>>> redundant with the dist-git log. We don't really need this anymore.
>>> It's just a chore.
>>>
>>> Third, though, there's end-user information. Why should a user care
>>> *This* is redundant with bodhi update info, at least if packagers fill
>>> that out, and it often also duplicates upstream changelogs, *and* it
>>> often also covers things like "fixes CVE-####' also carried the
>>> specfile changelog.
>>>
>>> This is neither most helpful for user *nor* ideal for packages. Why
>>> don't we drop changelogs entirely in favor of 1) using the dist-git
>>> logs for specfile maintainers and 2) providing the end-user information
>>> in a different way. This could be through specially formatted log lines
>>> going with the commit, or it could be simply in a standard separate
>>> file (`fedora.user-visible-changes`). Optionally, it could include both
>>> a high level end-user summary, and a detailed description for sysadmins
>>> and the curious.
>>>
>>> Wherever it lives, this would be read by Bodhi, so there's
>>> would be need to enter it more than once. And, perhaps a DNF plugin
>>> could be made to read and display this information for systems
>>> administrators.
>>>
>>
>> I fully support the removal of RPM changelogs. However, you've missed
>> two cases:
>>
>> 1) Rawhide, which doesn't go through bodhi
>> 2) Fedora release upgrades, which don't go through bodhi
>>
>> Now, I would actually LOVE for Rawhide to go through bodhi but
>> whatever. The release -> release upgrade isn't really solvable that
>> way though.
>>
>> Someone else suggested changelogs could be inserted during koji build
>> time. That would be interesting to look into.
>>
>
> Koji, or fedpkg, or better yet some hook in rpm itself. It's not exactly
> rocket science we're talking about here if people are ready to give it a go.
>
I actually looked yesterday if I could make a PR for rpm implementing it
but I couldn't really find a good way to do it. So I decided to implement it
in `rpkg-client` (
https://pagure.io/rpkg-client/branch/spec_preprocessor
- basically a hack upon python-rpkg library) by spec preprocessing. So,
with that development version of rpkg, you can have specs (or rather spec
templates) like this in your Git project:
Name: {{{ git_name }}}
Version: {{{ git_version }}}
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: This is a test package.
License: GPLv2+
URL:
https://someurl.org
Source: {{{ make_source }}}
%description
This is a test package.
%prep
{{{ setup }}}
{{{ git_change_log }}}
rpkg will take that spec template and replace the {{{ ... }}} tags with
standard output of the commands inside the braces (git_name, git_version,
make_source, setup, git_change_log are all shell functions). Afterwards,
the generated spec is used to e.g. create an srpm (done by `rpkg srpm`
command).
.
It is now under review. Please, join. Starting docs are here:
I haven't actually implemented the `git_change_log` function yet (nor the
other functions except for `make_source`) like Igor did - currently it just
always returns '%changelog' and that's it but I wanted to show this to
possibly get some feedback.
Thank you
clime
>
> Neal, doesn't Mageia (and Mandriva) pull package changelogs from SCM
> already? Do you know what kind of hook they're using? Actually I think Suse
> does this too so Fedora is probably again the last one to adopt this...
>
> - Panu -
>
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