Wiki » Feature:New Mgarepo

Summary

Rewrite mgarepo, with git support and new maintainers db

Owner

• Name: boklm
• Email: boklm@mars-attacks.org

Resources

boklm, colin, xrg + other people interested

Current status

• Targeted release: Mageia 4
• Last updated: 2025/05/10
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Create a new version of mgarepo, to be used by packagers, and on build system, with following features :

• git repositories to store packages instead of svn
• command for the creation of a new repository (to import a new package)
• binrepo (same as in current version)
• sending of binrepo files using an URL instead of upload
• packaging software without binary tarballs, the sources are stored in a git branch, the tarball is created automatically by mgarepo
• new maintainers database, with support for maintainers groups
• automatic assignement of packages bugs to maintainer(s) on bugzilla
• sending of commit notifications to package maintainer

Packaging of software without binary tarballs work like this :

• push the upstream sources to a branch/tag in the git repository
• add a Sources line in the spec file like this:

Source0: git:[githash]/[directory-name]/[tarball-name].tar.xz

• run mgarepo getsources to generate or download the missing tarballs (from git branch, or from binrepo)

Why it would be good for Mageia to include it

• using git makes it easier to manage different branches (for different distributions / medias)
• we need maintainers group support

Software / Packages Dependencies

mgarepo and build system

What could disrupt development of this new feature

lack of time

Planning

• development of mgarepo, conversion scripts and testing until the release of Mageia 7
• deployement after Mageia 7 release, before reopening cauldron (if everything is ready)