My first fedora package review
Recently I’ve done my first fedora package review and this very short post is about usage of fedora-review tool.
Usage
Standard usage is very straightforward. You just need to know the bug ID for review request
fedora-review -b 123456
It will complain that you should build the package in rawhide, so basically this is a way to go
fedora-review -b 123456 --mock-config fedora-rawhide-x86_64
My usage
Since this was my first review and I certainly lack lot of experience in the field of packaging, I didn’t want to just blindly give tips what should be changed and how. I wanted to test it first.
I took spec file and sources from what the fedora-review generated and put it into ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES. I suppose, that it would also be possible to obtain spec directly from bugzilla, open it and see how sources should be obtained.
Then I could edit it as I wanted, build it and see whether my suggestions are helpful or not
rpmbuild -bs ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/foo.spec
fedora-review -rn ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/foo-0.2-1.fc25.src.rpm --mock-config fedora-rawhide-x86_64