[ovirt-devel] Debian support for vdsm and subpackages

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:

> >
> > 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... )
> >
> > having a separate repo decouple the distribution packaging from the
> package
> > itself and make it easier to handle at release time.
> >
>
> 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)?
>

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.



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



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