release notes rpm to release engineering

Murray McAllister murray.mcallister at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 03:41:41 UTC 2008


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/
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>
>  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,

Murray.

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