Package Updating Doc Available

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 27.06.2007 13:55, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:58 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>> On Mi Juni 27 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> Documentation describing the new package update process flow is now
>>> available at
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo.
>>> Feel free to update with any clarifications that you feel are needed and
>>> can figure out or ask away.
>> Can you please explain, how you use diff and patch to sync between devel and 
>> F-7? I normally only copy the spec from one place to another.
>>
>> Also, you write, that a package should be build locally for devel and F-7 
>> separately. Afaik will the results only differ, when one uses a devel and a 
>> F-7 machine for this.
> 
> Not true.  You can use mock to build locally for F-7 and devel on the
> same machine.  Just run 'make mockbuild' from the appropriate branch.

But the doc at that place doesn't mention "make mockbuild", but mentions
"make i386, make x86_64, or make ppc" instead ;-)

BTW: when jeremy in the doc mentioned to build stuff from both the devel
and the F-7 branch locally he afaics meant to do that when the spec
files in both branches differ. Otherwise there really is no point in
rebuilding them locally without mock or different installs afaics.

CU
thl (who does a local mock build only for new packages before submitting
them for review)