[Freeipa-devel] Build system refactoring - design document

[Petr Spacek]

On 7.10.2016 12:59, Martin Basti wrote:
> 
> 
> 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)

I've added clean to the list. In general, we should get all targets listed in
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
"for free" (if we do it right).


> 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

I'm fine with just one pylint. Design updated:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Build_system_refactoring#Configuration

Thank you for clarification!

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Petr^2 Spacek