[Freeipa-devel] Build system refactoring - design document

[Petr Spacek]

On 11.10.2016 15:47, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> On 10/07/2016 11:56 AM, 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!
>>
> 
> I'd like to add one use case which is a prerequisite for "packager":
> release engineer.
> 
> Currently, IPA is released by running
>   $ make IPA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no rpms
> 
> Then tarball is copied from dist/sources to freeipa.org
> 
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Release#Building_the_sources
> 
> With current code, it may be done only with:
>  $ make tarball
> 
> But it probably wasn't tested much so I'd not rely on it.
> 
> What I'd like to see:
> 
> Release engineer:
>  $ make dist
>  $ # copy tarball
> 
> Packager:
>  $ ./configure [--options]
>  $ make install
> 
> I think that this workflow is implied by "Automake: Standard Targets"
> but IMHO it should be specified in the design explicitly because it is a
> change in our process.

Fine with me. Please formulate your requirements to user stories and add them to:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Build_system_refactoring#User_stories

I will look at them after that.

-- 
Petr^2 Spacek