So, in order to custom rebuild a distro from git repos, one should:

Extract the list of repos
Clone *all* the git repos locally, and switch to the right branch

run get_sources.sh in all the repos

then run rpmbuild -bs *.spec in the right directory, for each repo.

I am sure there is/should be a slightly more efficient way than that. How about a repo that contains all the non-binary sources for all the packages?

Masoud

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:

On 06/11/2014 02:47 PM, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> Gitblit offers an API that should permit you to list repos easily
> enough: http://gitblit.com/rpc.html
>
> It seems pretty trivial to use,
> e.g.: https://git.centos.org/rpc?req=LIST_REPOSITORIES
>
> You should be able to use that to clone all of the repos and then use
> some combination of 'git fetch' and 'git log' to get the activity logs.
> Or use the RSS feeds for each repo, if you prefer. TIMTOWTDI.
>
> This seems like a significant improvement, since you no longer have to
> diff the ftp 'ls' output -- there are actual machine-consumable feeds
> and APIs to use.
>

and there are federation opportunities as well, so its possible for
people to bring up and run their own git mirrors for the repos they care
about ( and are public ).

- KB

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