As part of my Student Experience post in Information Services Group at the University of Edinburgh, I develop this tool which includes utilities to handle package-recipes rpm projects from Fedora (https://src.fedoraproject.org/). It helps develop make copies the Fedora projects(but can be configured to other git repos as well) projects and make contributions flow seamless by automating pushing and pulling to different git repos you configured.

Installation

Create Virtual Environment

virtualenv-3 --system-site-packages /some/dir

and activate it

. /some/dir/bin/activate

Download the package recipes sources by cloneing the repository

git clone git@github.com:billyjason/package-recepices.git

The package uses python3 and requires the gitpython package. Run

python setup.py install

to install the package.

Configuration

Create a ~/.package-recipes.cfg file with the following content

[config]
local_path = /some/directory/where/the/local/repos/are
project_url = ${GIT_DIR_URL}
upstream_branch = f19
unit = ${BRANCH} # used for branch names and releases
packager = ${USER}
distribution = el7

Workflow

identify a package you want to clone from Fedora (https://src.fedoraproject.org/) and run

pr-clone package-name

you might want to specify a particular Fedora branch you want to use as basis for your changes.

change the sources file to include a URL where to download the source files and make any changes to the spec file
run

make build

to generate the source rpm and run mock to build the packge

if everything works commit your changes
run

make up

to generate a file containing the list of rpms to be uploaded. In the case where some files did not get generated a warning is issues and you should check the rpm list.

upload rpms

mdp-package-submit -b ... -d el7 @up

create a release tag

make release

The tag gets printed. Make sure it is sensible.

push changes to package recipe project. You need to push both the branch and tag, eg

git push origin geos_el7; git push origin el7_2.18.20_2_3.geos

in project settings make project internal

Utilities

pr-create

Utiltiy to create a new rpm package.

pr-clone

Utility used to clone package sources from the Fedora project. Run with the -h flag to get some help. Run pr-clone pkg, eg

pr-clone python-pillow

The utility will

create an upstream remote
modify the spec file to include extra UoE fields and update the changelog
add a Makefile

It creates a unit specific branch and commits the changes. Finally, the changes are pushed to the gitlab project.

pr-download

download a source file and check md5 sum

pr-release

create a release tag

pr-rpmfiles

query the spec file to figure out what files have been created and list them in a file.

bbyiringiro/package-recepices