[ovirt-devel] Debian support for vdsm and subpackages

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> > Issue with keeping debian subdir within the package itself is that it's
>> > totally useless unless maintained.
>> > When a new release is issued just tagging the code won't be enough
>> > anymore
>> > because debian changelog expect to be updated with the release version.
>> > So
>> > tagging vdsm-4.17.14 without having 4.17.14 in the changelog will cause
>> > the
>> > package to fail the build (while rpm just issue a error in rpmlint... )
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>> > having a separate repo decouple the distribution packaging from the
>> > package
>> > itself and make it easier to handle at release time.
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>> While I have very little stake in this, I have to say that looking at
>> this from the side, it looks strange that RPM is supported as a
>> primary build target for all projects while DEB needs a separate repo.
>> Maybe the build scripts should be made smarter and work around Debians
>> limitations (For example let the makefile dynamically generate the
>> changelog form the tags)?
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> rpm build works just because rpm is not as strict as debian.
> there's a reason if fedora, rhel, centos uses dist-git with external spec
> file instead of rely on the spec file we ship within the tarball.
> The spec included in the tarball is not production / enterprise level ready.

Strange, I understood from Eyal that we push the spec vdsm generates
to dist-git, and this is the spec used for the build.

Patches to make the spec production/ enterprise ready are welcome :-)

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>> Barak Korren
>> bkorren at redhat.com
>> RHEV-CI Team
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> Sandro Bonazzola
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