rdopkg is an RPM packaging automation tool. It provides automation for
package maintenance including git-based patches management and automagic
rebases to new upstream versions with nice .spec changes, changelogs and
commit messages for both CLI and CI usage.
It also contains various functionality we needed for
RDO packaging, such as advanced
requirements.txt management for python projects and
rdoinfo integration.
Generic
distgit
and patches management functionality and conventions provided by rdopkg
proved to be efficient way of packaging fast-moving upstream projects with
minimal human effort but without losing control over individual packages.
rdopkg is now considered stable. It was originally developed to serve
the needs of the mighty RDO packager-warriors
and their weapons such as
DLRN, but it can help with
any RPM package. For example, see how you can manage your RPMs with
rdopkg.
rdopkg uses software factory
for CI and every commit goes through automatic unit, feature, and integration
testing as well as human reviews.
See open rdopkg reviews.
rdopkg is currently compatible with both python 3 and python 2.
rdopkg is available on Fedora 25 and newer:
dnf install rdopkg
On CentOS/RHEL 7, rdopkg is available from
EPEL.
On CentOS 7:
yum install epel-release
yum install rdopkg
On RHEL 7:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install rdopkg
If you want to hack rdopkg or just have the latest fixes without waiting for
next release, I suggest using the git repo directly:
git clone https://github.com/softwarefactory-project/rdopkg
cd rdopkg
python setup.py develop --user
You may set the preference over rdopkg RPM by correctly positioning
~/.local/bin/rdopkg in your $PATH.
Or you can use virtualenv to avoid conflicts with RPM:
git clone https://github.com/softwarefactory-project/rdopkg
cd rdopkg
virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/rdopkg-venv
source ~/rdopkg-venv/bin/activate
python setup.py develop
ln `which rdopkg` ~/bin/rdopkg-dev
rdopkg-dev --version
Required python modules are listed in requirements.txt and also in rdopkg.spec as RPM Requires.
For your convenience, rdopkg is also available from the Cheese
Shop. This should come in handy especially if you want to reuse rdopkg as
a module.
pip install rdopkg
Note that you need to have python2-rpm(resp. python3-rpm) package installed in order for RPM macro related featuers to work as it isn't available from PyPI.
Exhaustive rdopkg manual is available, you can:
- read it nicely rendered on github: rdopkg manual
- run
man rdopkgif you installed from RPM - render it to HTML/man using
make doc
You might also be interested in
RDO packaging intro
which contains some examples of rdopkg usage and more.
Please use the github Issues to report bugs. I usually fix critical bugs within days.