[Starlingx-discuss] Notes from meeting with Dirk about OBS

[Saul Wold]

Here are some notes from my meeting with Dirk from Suse.

Dirk Mueller was kind enough to meet with me Saturday morning, he works 
on the openstack-rpm-packaging [0] repo, which contains Jinja2 
templates. This repo uses Zuul jobs convert the Jinja2 to Fedora/RHEL 
specfile and SUSE-style specfiles and then runs a "spec-cleaner" [1] job 
via tox. There are also some "3rd" Party CI jobs that connect to SUSE 
and RDO's CI to actually build packages.

The spec-cleaner process provides a modified specfile if there are 
changes, it's not a linter per-se. It also depends on the specfile being 
ordered in an "opinionated" fashion, meaning the sections need to be in 
a certain order, see the openSUSE Specfile Guidelines [2].

I had started to create an OBS project [3], which currently contains 1 
"package", stx-fault, a package can contain multiple specfiles. This 
package can be branched to test.

There is a CLI called "osc" which can be installed to Fedora [4] or 
Ubuntu [5]. There is also a git_scm service that will generate packages 
from a git repo [6][7].

I propose that we try to convert a couple of packages to the ordering 
that spec-cleaner wants and do a before and after packaging test to 
validate the changes, then try running spec-cleaner

I am sure there is more information missing information or details, it 
might be useful to have a meeting with Dirk and other OBS folks when we 
are further along.

Sau!


[0] https://opendev.org/openstack/rpm-packaging
[1] https://github.com/openSUSE/spec-cleaner
[2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Specfile_guidelines
[3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:saulwold
[4] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/Fedora_28/
[5] 
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/xUbuntu_18.04/
[7] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Concept_SourceService
[8] https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-tar_scm