Copr

[Manuel Faux]

I wanted to try out the copr-cli, but unfortunately without great
success. I added my API key to ~/.config/api but copr-cli create always
results in an error, without an error message.

Is it known that the cli does not work yet, or did I miss something to
configure?

Manuel

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:54:40 +0100
Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:

> Dear developers and Fedora contributors,
> 
> let me introduce Copr:
> 
> http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> Copr is a build system for third party repositories. It is intended
> for:
>   * upstream teams - to make nightly and test builds
>   * layered applications - if you build on top of Fedora, but you are
> not part of Fedora
>   * packages not yet ready to be included in official Fedora
> repositories
> 
> How it works? You provide src.rpm, we will provide resulting yum repo
> for RHEL 5,6 and Fedora 18, 19, 20... But see WARNING on bottom of
> this mail.
> 
> I prepared quick tutorial for you:
>           https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/ScreenshotsTutorial
> and FAQ:
>          https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/UserDocs#FAQ
> 
> Everybody with FAS account can build there. If you want to use
> command line client, you should install copr-cli from updates-testing.
> 
> If you have ideas, questions, comments feel free to use one of our
> communication channels https://fedorahosted.org/copr/#Communications
>      (mailing list is prefered)
> 
> WARNING:
> Please do not rely on this service in production. This is very early
> release (following "release early, release often"). First of all,
> this service works in simple set-up, where resulting yum repos are
> *not* backed up. Yet. This is not yet officially part of Fedora
> infrastructure, so when Copr fails, it can take several hours to be
> restored. And yes, our WebUI is not perfect. It's work in progress.
> And since Copr can build packages already, I decided to publicly
> announce it, so you can experiment with it.
> 
> We are working on Copr on full steam and in upcoming days you can
> expect:
>      * improvements in WebUI
>      * ability to build Software Collections there
>