Improving our processes for new contributors.

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:04:12PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:53:31 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> 
> > One thing which I find very annoying when creating new packages is the
> > need to use bare rpmbuild commands. I find the split between
> > ~/rpmbuild/{SPECS,SOURCES} anachronistic (*), and much prefer the
> > fedpkg / distgit approach of having everything in one directory.
> > I now usually use the single directory approach from the beginning:
> > - git init new-package && cd new-pagkage
> > - emacs new-package.spec &
> > - spectool -g *spec
> > - md5sum ... | tee sources
> > - git add new-package.spec sources && git commit -m 'Initial version'
> > - git remote add ssh://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/new-package.git
> > - fedpkg --dist master {srpm,mockbuild,etc}
> 
> You can redefine %_topdir, %_sourcedir and %_specdir in ~/.rpmmacros,
> as well as various other macros, to modify the tree as you like.
Sure, but I would prefer not to muck around with that.
fedpgk does that already for me, and I would prefer to make use of that.

Zbyszek