Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-05-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 18:07 +0100, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > Before requesting a new dist-git repository for a new package, you need to > generate a pagure.io API token at https://pagure.io/settings/token/new, and  > save it > into your local user configuration located at ~/.config/rpkg/fedpkg.

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-15 Thread Brian Exelbierd
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 7:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 02/12/2018 10:14 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Not coming from a programming background I found the learning curve pretty > >> steep when I first tried to become a packager, I'm not su

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:37:38AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 02/12/2018 10:14 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Not coming from a programming background I found the learning curve pretty > >> steep when I first tried to become a packager, I'm

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 02/12/2018 10:14 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Not coming from a programming background I found the learning curve pretty >> steep when I first tried to become a packager, I'm not sure I wouldn't have >> given up if I had to do it now. > > Than

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-12 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Not coming from a programming background I found the learning curve pretty > steep when I first tried to become a packager, I'm not sure I wouldn't have > given up if I had to do it now. Thanks for speaking up about this. I'm having trouble f

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/11/2018 08:40 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: $ fedpkg request-branch Could not execute request_branch: The "token" value must be set under the "fedpkg.pagure" section in your "fedpkg" user configuration WTF?! So, instead of going to a web interface and making the change (ol

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Shaw wrote: > $ fedpkg request-branch > Could not execute request_branch: The "token" value must be set under the > "fedpkg.pagure" section in your "fedpkg" user configuration WTF?! So, instead of going to a web interface and making the change (old, now discontinued, pkgdb), we now have

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > > I wasn't even aware of this new use of fedpkg, but you could just have > looked > the help instead of searcghinq the source code: Always in the place you don't look... :) Thanks, Richard _

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-10 Thread Robert-André Mauchin
On samedi 10 février 2018 14:48:04 CET Richard Shaw wrote: > > So I went to request a new branch of an existing package only to find out > fedrepo-req-branch, which hasn't been around that long is already > depreceated and the facility brought into fedpkg... so: > > $ fedpkg request-branch > Cou

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-10 Thread Sérgio Basto
please see if helps [1] the meassage just have 5 days :) [1]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproj ect.org/message/KS6QZQHNFCFEVJPJMFWITYWV3AHRSX5E/ On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 07:48 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > So I went to request a new branch of an existing package o

RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

2018-02-10 Thread Richard Shaw
So I went to request a new branch of an existing package only to find out fedrepo-req-branch, which hasn't been around that long is already depreceated and the facility brought into fedpkg... so: $ fedpkg request-branch Could not execute request_branch: The "token" value must be set under the "f