packaging golang guidelines (like etcd, consul)

[Adam Goode]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Jakub Cajka wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Goode" <adam at spicenitz.org>
> > To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > Cc: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> > Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 3:47:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: packaging golang guidelines (like etcd, consul)
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:05:09AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Jan Chaloupka wrote:
> > > > >are there some fedora guidelines for golang apps?
> > > > >are there macros and helpers for rpm?
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Go
> > > 
> > > This needs help in going from a draft to real guidelines.
> > > 
> > 
> > I am also trying to figure this out. Looking at actual
> > packaged golang things in Fedora, I see quite a difference
> > between the drafts and what I see in specfiles. There
> > are a lot of macros copied everywhere.
> >
> 
> Could you please elaborate. 
> 

I figured it out. The generated packages are all from gofed.
They all share a lot of generated macros and comments.

> > 
> > Is there any more up to date guidance? It would be an
> > improvement to even just copy/paste emails of discussions
> > into the bottom of the wiki draft.
> >
> 
> This(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Go) 
> should be most up to date. For discussion see FPC ticket
> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/382.
> 
> Any input will be welcomed.

When I was looking to make the specfile, I jumped right to the
section in the wiki with the sample. I missed gofed completely.
I will add a note to the wiki suggesting to try gofed repo2spec
first before trying one of the sample specfiles in the page.

> 
> Jakub
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Adam

Thanks for the help!


Adam