[Avocado-devel] python-aexpect (drop aexpect requirement and package from repo)

[Cleber Rosa]

On 03/08/2017 04:35 PM, Merlin Mathesius wrote:
> 
> On 03/08/2017 01:39 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
>> On 03/08/2017 12:02 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
>>> Hi Merlin,
>>>
>>> I'm resuming work on the removal of deltas between upstream and
>>> downstream packages, and one of the most urgent tasks I noticed isto get
>>> rid of our own aexpect package.
>>>
>>> I see that python-aexpect is built on all the following distros (at least):
>>>
>>>  * EL7: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=863392
>>>  * F24: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=863388
>>>  * F25: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=860495
>>>
>>> Which is enough for what we need in Avocado "upstream" packages.  But,
>>> the python-aexpect package has been pushed only to F25 so far.
>>>
>>> If we publish it to the other distros, I can eliminate the "aexpect"
>>> requirement from the upstream SPEC file.
>>>
>>> Is that feasible?
> Sure thing. I just submitted requests to publish the python-aexpect
> package for the following distros:
> 
> * F24: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-94bb07357b
> * EL7: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-5afaa778a4
> 
> Once the packages hit the testing repos, feel free to check them out and
> give karma.

Thanks a lot! I will give, buy and ask for karma donations! :)

>>> Thanks!
>>>
>> BTW, the following PR was merged on aexpect:
>>
>> https://github.com/autotest/aexpect/pull/17
>>
>> Which renames the package to python-aexpect.  I have pushed an updated
>> version of it to the upstream YUM/DNF repo, and have dropped the
>> "aexpect" packages from it.
>>
>> This will make things easier on the avocado SPEC file.
>>
>> The next step is to drop the custom aexpect packages from the upstream repo.
>>
> 

-- 
Cleber Rosa
[ Sr Software Engineer - Virtualization Team - Red Hat ]
[ Avocado Test Framework - avocado-framework.github.io ]

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