Publican + Koji = Win

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:07:04AM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
> Intro:
> The web git repo is getting unmanageably large.   We're tossing around
> several GB across the Internet and not only does that take time but it
> also takes space.  The 'fix' for this problem was pretty simple.
> Publican can create packages (SRPM) and submit those packages to Koji
> where they can be added to a repository where our website
> (https://docs.fedoraproject.org) can then do a yum install and add
> those documents to the website.  Never again will you have to sync
> several GB of data just to publish to the web.
> 
> Where we are now:
> A ticket has been opened with Rel-Eng
> (https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5214) to add a tag to Koji to
> support our documents.  There are also some updates to Publican that
> need to be pushed as there are older versions being utilized in EL5
> and EL6.  Right now we are waiting for Rel-Eng to finish getting F17
> for ARM sorted out.
> 
> Rudi is working on moving this forward and I'll be following up with
> him on this as time moves forward.

Fantastic news, guys.  That's a huge barrier down.

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