README.rst

Python Package for Automatic Generation of RPM Release Fields and Changelogs

This project hosts the rpmautospec python package and script, which has these functions:

  • Attempt to automatically calculate release numbers and generate an RPM changelog from the dist-git repository of a package.
  • Tag commits in a dist-git repository with build NEVRs (quoting certain special characters).

Dependencies:

  • python3
  • python3-pygit2

General

The script run-rpmautospec.py allows testing the various algorithms for automatic release and changelog generation. It accepts normal CLI options, run python run-rpmautospec.py --help for more information.

Generating a Changelog

This is how you can use it:

  • Clone a dist-git repository
fedpkg clone -a guake
  • Generating the changelog, pointing it to the repository cloned above
python run-rpmautospec.py generate-changelog guake

Calculating the Next Value for the Release Field

Calculate the value for the RPM release field by running the script this way:

python run-rpmautospec.py calculate-release <pkgname>

E.g.:

python run-rpmautospec.py calculate-release bash

Contributing

You need to be legally allowed to submit any contribution to this project. What this means in detail is laid out in the file DCO.txt next to this file. The mechanism by which you certify this is adding a Signed-off-by trailer to git commit log messages, you can do this by using the --signoff/-s option to git commit.

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License: MIT