On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:35 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:

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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"?

Apologies for not understanding this.

Regards,

Murray.

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Murray McAllister murray.mcallister@gmail.com wrote:

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Murray McAllister murray.mcallister@gmail.com wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:

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On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:35 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:

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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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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:40:24PM +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:

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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.

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

That's right - I was using 8.92 for Beta. Once the PO file have come in -- since I always forget to it before I make the POT :-) -- I'll change the .spec file and the rpm-info.xml file to reflect 9.0.0 instead.

• 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?

The cvs-import.sh script is in the common files for Fedora Packages CVS -- it's not part of our build toolchain at all. You just run it against the .src.rpm and it does all the heavy lifting. This part I will probably handle this time, since I already have package maintainership there. (And in fact that's the one part of the responsibility I'd like to maintain, although I'm happy to have a co-maintainer.)

Since people doing package-monkey duties need to have a better familiarity with the software maintenance policies, etc., I'd recommend that you try maintaining a small package yourself before taking this part on. I just wanted to make sure it was documented for posterity. Thanks for calling this part out for notice!

• "make tag build" - is this all I have to do?

This is part of the package maintenance, but yes. You can read more at the Packaging pages:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging

• Once translation is complete, do I only need to run "make release-srpm"?

Correct.

Apologies for not understanding this.

None needed, thanks for helping and learning!