[CentOS-devel] Format for the CentOS (openshift) origin rpm

Ari LiVigni

ari at redhat.com
Fri Sep 16 16:46:40 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Clint Savage <herlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's the problem I'm encountering. Dist-git is great, and probably where
> we should be targeting. It has a lookaside fit the tarballs and such. Why
> is this not good enough? Can the lookaside be adjusted to use the same
> tarballs? I wrote something back when I was working on GoOSe that would
> have been able to be flexible enough for this concept.
>
> My knowledge of Tito is not enough to say for sure, but it should be able
> to either pull a tarball, or modify the spec in a way to deal with those
> changes.
>
> Essentially, I don't see why the process can't accommodate the automation
> bits, but also make it easy for a contributor. In fact, maybe downloading
> the tarball, then telling Tito might be a good choice.
>
> My suggestion here is to update Tito to accommodate an already existing
> tarball, either downloaded it in the lookaside cache. In the meantime,
> don't change your process.
>
> Thoughts?
>
+1, spot on of what I was thinking as well

>
> On Sep 15, 2016 20:51, "Jason DeTiberus" <jdetiber at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been debating this all week and decided it's probably better as a
>>> community decision than just my own.
>>>
>>> Problem:
>>> The current source rpm for origin is generated using tito on the
>>> origin git repo.  The biggest problem with this is the tarball is
>>> generated on the fly and sortof encorporated into the spec file.  That
>>> makes it hard for others to duplicate the src.rpm and/or make patches
>>> for it.
>>>
>>> If I were an outsider (not on the openshift team) and making an rpm
>>> for Fedora/EPEL, I wouldn't do this.  I would grab the released
>>> tarball from Github and build my spec file around that.
>>>
>>> Solution 1:
>>> Keep things the same.
>>> Do others really care that they can't duplicate the src.rpm without
>>> tito, as long as they can recompile it?
>>>
>>
>> Personally, I like this approach since it integrates with rhpkg/fedpkg
>> very well. I'm not sure if CentOS has a similar tool that provides dist-git
>> alongside koji, but I like the idea of being able to leverage the same spec
>> file for all builds.
>>
>> That said, I do wonder if providing a tool that could "convert" the tito
>> managed spec file to one that can be run outside of tito would be
>> beneficial.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Solution 2:
>>> Create a origin spec file that uses the tarball from Github.
>>> I've already done this.  It works quite well.  But it does involve
>>> some manual spec file editing.
>>>
>>> Troy
>>> p.s. I am totally fine either way.  The only reason I've been debating
>>> this is because I keep having issues with tito making the whole
>>> src.rpm.
>>>
>>
>> cc'ing Devan Goodwin, since he knows a bit about tito. I'm also cc'ing
>> Adam Miller, since I know he is packaging OpenShift Origin for Fedora.
>>
>> --
>> Jason DeTiberus
>>
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