Re: release notes rpm to release engineering

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:40:24PM +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>  On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Paul W. Frields
> <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:35 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>  >  > Hi,
>  >  >
>  >  > I didn't do [subject] last time. What is the procedure for this? Do
>  >  > you just checkin the .srpm and .spec files to CVS?
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks for your help,
>  >  >
>  >  > Murray.
>  >
>  >  I wrote this up yesterday in a few spare minutes between housecleaning
>  >  and company arriving:
>  >
>  >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/Drafts/ReleaseNotesHowto
>  >
>  >  Please read -- and more importantly, tell me what's not clear so I can
>  >  make it better.
>  
>  Thanks for writing that up. I have a few questions:
>  
>  * "For Fedora 9, the version numbers 9, 9.0, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, and so on,
>  are all acceptable." - I thought I saw you putting 8.92 into
>  something...is that still okay? At the moment the spec file has 8.92 
That's right - I was using 8.92 for Beta.  Once the PO file have come in
-- since I always forget to it before I make the POT :-) -- I'll change
the .spec file and the rpm-info.xml file to reflect 9.0.0 instead.

>  * In the "Building" section, "You can then carry the
> .src.rpm file to
>  the Fedora Package CVS, in the fedora-release-notes/devel module, and
>  run cvs-import.sh <SRPM_FILE> to update everything automatically.".
>  Where is the "cvs-import" script, and will running "cvs-import"
> carry
>  the source RPM, do do I use cvs import for that? 
The cvs-import.sh script is in the common files for Fedora Packages CVS
-- it's not part of our build toolchain at all.  You just run it against
the .src.rpm and it does all the heavy lifting.  This part I will
probably handle this time, since I already have package maintainership
there.  (And in fact that's the one part of the responsibility I'd like
to maintain, although I'm happy to have a co-maintainer.)

Since people doing package-monkey duties need to have a better
familiarity with the software maintenance policies, etc., I'd recommend
that you try maintaining a small package yourself before taking this
part on.  I just wanted to make sure it was documented for posterity.
Thanks for calling this part out for notice!

>  * "make tag build" - is this all I have to do? 
This is part of the package maintenance, but yes.  You can read more at
the Packaging pages:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging

>  * Once translation is complete, do I only need to run "make
> release-srpm"? 
Correct.

>  Apologies for not understanding this. 
None needed, thanks for helping and learning!

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