Hi all,
I wrote a small tool that updates the changelog within both spec files and
files related to Debian packages. This tool, bpa (binary package
abstraction), is based on a XML changelog; therefore only one changelog has
to be maintained for all binary package formats. Such a changelog has to be
named 'package.xml' and need to be at the same location than the spec file
and the debian repository for Debian packages. A package.xml file looks like:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<package>
<name>test</name>
<changelog>
<release version="0.2">
<packager>me</packager>
<logs>
<date>Wed May 10 2006</date>
<item>modif6</item>
<item>modif7</item>
</logs>
</release>
<release version="0.0.1-2">
<packager>toto</packager>
<logs>
<date>Thu Apr 9 2006</date>
<item>modif5</item>
<item>modif4</item>
</logs>
</release>
<release version="0.0.1-1">
<packager>titi</packager>
<logs>
<date>Mon Feb 1 2006</date>
<item>modif3</item>
<item>modif2</item>
<item>modif1</item>
</logs>
</release>
</changelog>
</package>
bpa is a Perl binary but also a Perl library. The Perl binary currently
supports different options:
- update changelogs of both RPMs and Debs,
- update changelog of the spec file,
- update changelog for the Debian package.
To illustrate how bpa works, i will take a small example based on the XML
changelog previously presented. If you execute 'perl
bpa.pl --update-changelogs' at the location where you have the package.xml
file, the local 'test.spec' file will be open, old changelogs removed and new
changelogs added. Same thing with the Debian changelog.
Note that the name of the spec file must match the package name in the XML
file.
Currently the RPM support is finished whereas the Debian support is not yet
fully implemented. Actually i want to know if all OSCAR developers are
interested in using such a tool to federate data between RPMs and Debs before
to continue to implement that tool.
If we decide to use that tool, i also plan to handle the package version
available in the spec file. I also plan to extend the bpa API in order to be
able to use bpa in other scripts/tools. For instance it may be nice to use
such a tool in Makefiles for OPKG available via pkgsrc, i think it is a good
first step for the automatic creation of both RPMs and Debs packages.
Let me know what you think about that but i really think this kind of tools
eases the creation of both RPMs and Debs.
Regards,
--
Geoff
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