random idea about OBS packages

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 11 November 2013, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 11:17 AM, Marco Martin wrote:
> > I was thinking about how to make the osc integration a bit better, since
> > now is a bit clunky (starting from the fact the input fields in the
> > upload form seems to be a bit confusing)
> > 
> > another problem that surfaced is that when there is an update in plasma
> > active that touches things like kdelibs, it triggers a rebuild of the
> > other packages as well, changing the build number, making the packageid
> > invalid (i corrected by hand the two assets interested)
> > 
> > an idea may be:
> > * the user only inputs the project (or not even that if we force all to
> > be in a single repo)
> > * the ackage name (again the obs package name and rpm name are the same
> > in 99% of the cases)
> > * the architecturei586,armv7hl (if we still want to be two different
> > assets for the two architectures)
> > 
> > then the descriptor file on the server is just a template, the actual
> > packageid should be generated by a command (possibly when the asset is
> > downloaded, to be really really sure is the newest one)
> > 
> > something like
> > 
> > osc list -b kde:stable:apps TabletReader|grep TabletReader
> > 
> > seems a good base for the job
> > 
> > opinions? comments?
> 
> I would go for using the package name and its version number, as defined
> by the author, e.g.
> name: TabletReader
> version: 3.0.2
> then the number generated by the build system is added automatically.
> 
> However, I don't see how you update the package from that single repo
> when the author makes available a new version. Should the author upload
> all the files needed to build the package on OBS ?

I think the final thing will be the author updates in his home repo, which is 
put in the upload form

then the publish phase automatically copies over the package as approval 
process
-- 
Marco Martin