Package Updating Doc Available

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Jun 27 11:55:38 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:58 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mi Juni 27 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Documentation describing the new package update process flow is now
> > available at
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo.
> > Feel free to update with any clarifications that you feel are needed and
> > can figure out or ask away.
> 
> Can you please explain, how you use diff and patch to sync between devel and 
> F-7? I normally only copy the spec from one place to another.
> 
> Also, you write, that a package should be build locally for devel and F-7 
> separately. Afaik will the results only differ, when one uses a devel and a 
> F-7 machine for this.

Not true.  You can use mock to build locally for F-7 and devel on the
same machine.  Just run 'make mockbuild' from the appropriate branch.

josh




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