Ok, thanks everybody. I am going to digest all this. If there a command or some sql steps to cleanup/undo my imports, please point me to them.
I thought I can across a page with some various helpful koji sql macros a couple of days ago, but I can't find it now. Doug On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Mike McLean <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/2010 09:27 AM, Doug Reiland wrote: >> So, I import a src.rpm. What is the process for generating the binary rpms? >> I was assuming koji would do a rpnmbuild --rebuild via mock?? somehow. >> >> How are updates managed in fedora? I was assuming packages were always >> getting rebuilt based on some kind of trigger (source update, ...), >> and tagged, after testing or time-frame moved to an update repository. >> Is this or something like it done in koji or outside koji. > > For a "how to use koji" doc from the building perspective, you should > read the Fedora developer docs: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji > Some of it is specific to their setup, but most of it is generic. > > In Koji, a build is the set set of rpms that originate from a single > source rpm. All the binary and/or noarch packages and subpackages, as > well as the srpm itself, are part of the build. Since the srpm is the > defining element, the build is referred to by the name of the srpm. > > Koji only knows about rpms that is tracks in its database. There are two > ways to get a build into koji: > 1) build it in koji (koji build) > 2) manually import an entire external build (koji import) > > In the course of normal operation, manual imports should be rare. > > To build from a source rpm, you simply need to pass that file to the > build command. When you imported your source rpm before, you were > creating a manually imported build that consisted solely of that source > rpm. Because Koji enforces N-V-R uniqueness you will not be able to > build that srpm normally; Koji thinks it's already been built. > -- > buildsys mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/buildsys > -- buildsys mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/buildsys
