[CentOS-devel] automating the epel downstreams for cbs

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> We've now got quite a few downstream rpms from EPEL being built and
> managed in CBS. And it might be worth restarting the conversation around
> automating part of the relationship.
>
> As a cbs consumer, what makes the most sense ?
>
> 1) We fork EPEL completely, for all arch's into CBS, and just build
> everything into a target at cbs, and let folks pick and tag into their
> own targets as they see fit.
>
> 2) we setup a way to monitor EPEL changes, and notify folks who built a
> package in cbs, that now has a newer version or an update in EPEL. this
> can ( might need to ? ) be email based for now.
>
> Having setup (1) and (2) we will still need a way to do (2) even if we
> do (1).
>
> thoughts ?

I've thought long and hard about it, and I'm not keen on forking.
What I would like is a somewhat automated import for select packages.
However, we can't exactly trust Fedora git, what matters is what Bodhi
pushes instead...

François