fedpkg prep

[Jesse Keating]

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On 09/01/2010 08:16 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> On 01-Sep-10 20:43, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>> Taking the dist value from the branch name is "magical" in the sense
>> that it imposes a new interpretation on an existing datum.  Taking it
>> from a file in the working tree designated for that specific purpose
>> (which I suppose should really be named "dist", not "branch") is not.  I
>> believe taking it from the git configuration file is an abuse of the git
>> configuration file, as I said in reply to Tom.
> 
> In either case one should have the ability to choose which distribution 
> to build for at the time of building without the need to monkey around 
> with branch configurations or configuration files so one can test builds 
> from a given branch on multiple distributions at once.  As far as I can 
> tell, when one wants to work on an update branch that applies to 
> multiple releases one can only use fedpkg to do builds by creating one 
> new branch for every release and then moving them all in lockstep. 
> Luckily one can still call koji or mock directly to bypass fedpkg.

So you're talking about doing a scratch build and using a different koji
target.  The fedpkg build command takes a --target (with --scratch)
which will tell it to use a different target.  scratch-build has this
too.  This should allow you to test with something that has already been
pushed, or by creating srpms and passing those to fedpkg (scratch-)build.


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Jesse Keating
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