SRPMs as download artifacts (was: Re: libvirt Source RPMs for CentOS or RHEL?)

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:24:25AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> [moving to libvir-list]
> 
> On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 09:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:47:30AM +0800, FuLong Wang wrote:
> > > Do we have libvirt source rpms (version above 5.9.0) for CentOS or RHEL?
> > > 
> > > I only find source rpms for fedora in below public link.
> > > 
> > > https://libvirt.org/sources/
> > 
> > Please ignore all the RPMs you see there, they really shouldn't be
> > used.
> 
> Can we just stop generating them?
> 
> And get rid of all the existing ones, especially silly stuff like
> the binary RPMs from 2013 targeting Fedora 17. This will have the
> additional benefit of making it easier to find what you're looking
> for, since it will no longer be hidden among a heap of irrelevant
> garbage.

Yes, I mentioned in the doc about adopting gitlab for infra, that
we should stop providing the RPMs.

> > The source tarballs (eg libvirt-5.9.0.tar.xz) contain a spec file
> > inside.
> > 
> > This means you can generate RPMs for your precise distro using something
> > akin to the following commands:
> > 
> >  $ rpmbuild -ts libvirt-5.9.0.tar.xz
> >  $ sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config
> >  $ sudo dnf builddep $HOME/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libvirt-5.9.0-1.fc31.src.rpm
> >  $ rpmbuild --rebuild  $HOME/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libvirt-5.9.0-1.fc31.src.rpm
> 
> I think it would make sense to document this quick procedure
> somewhere, if we haven't already. There's some obvious overlap with
> our 'make rpm' target, but that one requires unpacking the release
> archive and running configure beforehand, so it's not quite as nice
> for someone who just wants to quickly get a working set of RPMs.

The README.md  and the https://libvirt.org/compiling.html pages are
good candidates.

Regards,
Daniel
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