RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

[Adam Williamson]

On 06/03/13 04:40 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 03:48:29 -0500 (EST)
>>>  From tooling perspective - that's the question if we want to
>>> enhance
>>> our tools, step into other similar project (for collaboration with
>>> our downstreams? other distros...).
>>
>> yeah, I don't know.
>>
>> Perhaps someone could ask around and see if there's any
>> projects/setups
>> inside Red Hat that would be good for this? ABI checking and perhaps
>> rpm diffing?
>
> I'm trying to ask guys around, what do they have and what they could
> offer for us. And sell it as a good thing for both sides ;-)

We do already have an AutoQA test which runs rpmguard, and rpmguard 
notes dependency/provision version changes. Here it is spotting an ABI 
bump for binutils:

http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/531743-autotest/qa02.qa/rpmguard/results/binutils-2.23.52.0.1.html

Now, whether you'd want to somehow parse such results out from the 
existing rpmguard test externally, or write a new more specific test, or 
do something else, or dance a little jig, is a different question. But 
to a certain extent we're Already Doing That. The rpmguard test is 
currently entirely informational, no policies are enforced, but you can 
go read the output if you want to be an informed package maintainer...
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