I removed a few packages from the devel/F15 repos due to broken deps

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue May 31 10:05:54 CEST 2011


On 05/30/2011 08:38 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <fedora at leemhuis.info>  wrote:
>> In case someone wonders what I did for the actual branching, here are
>> the rough steps:
>>
>> * remove all kmod packages from the devel repos
>> * build a buildsys-build-rpmfusion package that contained a hard dep on
>> the F15 release kernel
>> * rebuild all kmods and make them build akmod packages, too
>> * check for broken deps and find a "solution" for them
>> * create a signing key for F16
>> * add the public key to the rpmfusion-{non,}free-release packages fopr
>> F13, F14 and F15
>> * build rpmfusion-{non,}free-release packages for F15 that have the
>> proper repos enabled and rawhide disabled
>> * push all of that
>> * for free and nonfree something like this:
>> mkdir releases/15/
>> cp -a development/ releases/15/Everything
>> * ask adrianr to make changes in the MirrorManager (in fact he asked me
>> before I asked him)
>> * build kmods for the updated kernel
>
> I have created a rough wiki page[1] from this information to be
> expounded upon. It will need to be made suitably version generic but I
> didn't want this info to get lost.
>
> I'm not sure what the right syntax is for "code" in the RPM Fusion
> wiki,<pre>...</pre>  didn't work like it does on the Fedora wiki.

It's a moin wiki; Fedora switched from moin to mediawiki quite some time 
ago.

You can find a bunch of help pages here:
http://www.rpmfusion.org/HelpOnEditing

Paul.



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