release notes rpm to release engineering
Murray McAllister
murray.mcallister at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 05:33:41 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Murray McAllister
<murray.mcallister at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Murray McAllister
> <murray.mcallister at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:35 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I didn't do [subject] last time. What is the procedure for this? Do
> > > > you just checkin the .srpm and .spec files to CVS?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help,
> > > >
> > > > Murray.
> > >
> > > I wrote this up yesterday in a few spare minutes between housecleaning
> > > and company arriving:
> > >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/Drafts/ReleaseNotesHowto
> > >
> > > Please read -- and more importantly, tell me what's not clear so I can
> > > make it better.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
> > > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
> > > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
> > > irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
> >
> > Thanks for writing that up. I have a few questions:
> >
> > * "For Fedora 9, the version numbers 9, 9.0, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, and so on,
> > are all acceptable." - I thought I saw you putting 8.92 into
> > something...is that still okay? At the moment the spec file has 8.92
> >
> > * In the "Building" section, "You can then carry the .src.rpm file to
> > the Fedora Package CVS, in the fedora-release-notes/devel module, and
> > run cvs-import.sh <SRPM_FILE> to update everything automatically.".
> > Where is the "cvs-import" script, and will running "cvs-import" carry
> > the source RPM, do do I use cvs import for that?
> >
> > * "make tag build" - is this all I have to do?
> >
> > * Once translation is complete, do I only need to run "make release-srpm"?
> >
>
> Also, do I need anything special to use "make mockbuild"? I couldn't
> find the make target for this.
>
> Cheers,
>
Apologies for all the obvious questions.
Is someone who has done this before going to be around when I need to
build the SRPM? I'm not sure I can decipher the, sigh, gnome
docbook/xml tool error messages, or if anything funny pops up in a po
file...
Thanks for your help,
- Murray.
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