[fedora-arm] Fedora packaging process

[Andrew Wafaa]

On 5 February 2013 10:04, Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel at seyman.fr> wrote:
> * Andrew Wafaa [05/02/2013 09:41] :
>>
>> Aloha all,
>>
>> If possible could someone briefly explain the packaging process on
>> Fedora, please? As an example, on openSUSE (as that is what I'm
>> accustomed to) the process is basically this:
>>
>> Package is built in a users home repo, once built and tested it is
>> then submitted to the appropriate development project with a request
>> in the message to go into factory (equivalent to rawhide) ->
>> development project accepts/rejects the submission, if accepted the
>> package is then submitted to factory for inclusion in the next distro
>> release, if rejected clear explanation as to why is given.
>>
>> What is the equivalent on Fedora? How does mock, koji shadow etc all fit in?
>
> Nitpick: this probably belongs on another mailing-list (packaging ?)
>
I agree it could have been asked on a different mailing-list, but my
questions are in relation to packaging for ARM :)
You're correct in nitpicking though.

> A package is built by a packager, preferably in a chroot built by mock.
> Once this is built and tested, the spec, patchs and source are commited in git
> and tagged,the package is built once again in koji, it is then submitted as an
> update to a stable branch or added to rawhide, depending which target was
> specified. For a stable branch, the package is put in the updates-testing repo.
>
> Users have the ability to grade and comment an update.
>
Nice feature.

> Once a sufficient delay has passed, the update is pushed in the updates repo.
>
Is there any idea on how long the "normal" delay is?

Regards,

Andy


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