[Fedora-haskell-list] Haskell packaging for multiple Fedora releases?

[Rajesh Krishnan]

Hello,

I have these quick questions about submitting RPMs for different Fedora 
releases and a quick scan thru' the Fedora packaging guidelines did not point 
me in the right direction. Here it goes:

If I want to submit a number of packages that would build exactly the same way 
(that is, identical SRPMs)  on Fedora8, Fedora9 and RawHide then do I need to 
submit 3 different Review Requests on bugzilla.redhat.com?

And what if the source RPMs that I have created are different for Fedora 8, 
Fedora 9 and Rawhide?  Then would that call for creating 3 different Review 
Requests on Bugzilla?

Thanks in advance.

-Rajesh

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Rajesh Krishnan wrote:
>  If I want to submit a number of packages that would build exactly the
> same way
>  (that is, identical SRPMs)  on Fedora8, Fedora9 and RawHide then do I need to
>  submit 3 different Review Requests on bugzilla.redhat.com? 
No just one review per package: the review would initially be for 
rawhide (devel) and then once accepted branches can be request for F-8 
and F-9.

>  And what if the source RPMs that I have created are different for
> Fedora 8,
>  Fedora 9 and Rawhide?  Then would that call for creating 3 different Review
>  Requests on Bugzilla? 
Not really - the package would be backported as necessary - ideally with 
minimal modifications to the current and older release.

Any particular package in mind?

For Haskell I guess the main difference might be the version ghc typically.

Jens

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Rajesh Krishnan <fedora(a)krishnan.cc&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I have these quick questions about submitting RPMs for different Fedora
>  releases and a quick scan thru' the Fedora packaging guidelines did not point
>  me in the right direction. Here it goes:
>
>  If I want to submit a number of packages that would build exactly the same way
>  (that is, identical SRPMs)  on Fedora8, Fedora9 and RawHide then do I need to
>  submit 3 different Review Requests on bugzilla.redhat.com?
>
>  And what if the source RPMs that I have created are different for Fedora 8,
>  Fedora 9 and Rawhide?  Then would that call for creating 3 different Review
>  Requests on Bugzilla?
>
>  Thanks in advance. 
If you use cabal-rpm, then it's really just a matter of changing the
GHC version and the dist number in the spec file.

The guidelines are designed around using Cabal as well, so again, the
spec file should be as generic as possible.

-yaakov