[Freeipa-devel] Build system refactoring - design document

[Martin Basti]

On 07.10.2016 11:56, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Dear FreeIPA developers and packagers,
>
> you can find first version of the Build system refactoring design document on:
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Build_system_refactoring
>
> If you do not care about implementation details, please be so kind and quickly
> scan through chapter
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Build_system_refactoring#Feature_Management
>
> I'm not an FreeIPA packager so I might miss some important thing which needs
> to be configurable.
>
>
> Also, I would appreciate ideas how to handle build versioning:
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Build_system_refactoring#Versioning
>
> My main questions are:
> * What is triggering IPA upgrade?
> * Would it be sufficient to bump release in RPM? (I mean - theoretically.
> Could the code be modified to detect this?)
>
> Here I'm trying to avoid unnecessary rebuilds caused by changes to
> IPA_VENDOR_VERSION during each build.
>
>
> Timo, what can I do to help you with packaging for Ubuntu/Debian?
>
> Dream big, even wild ideas are welcome!
>

Thank you for nice design,

1)
I'd like to have make clean as well (we have it there now, but I don't 
think that it works well)

2)
Pylint:

currently we have (almost) python2/3 compatible code so what is the 
reason to have python2 and python3 separated checks? Pylint is doing 
that at once